Kindergarten and 1st Grade Earth and Space Science Activities : Page 2

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!