Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Earth and Space Science Activities : Page 3

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.

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

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Kids conduct a simple science experiment to see if seeds can grow without soil in this simple kindergarten science activity.

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

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

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

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

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

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

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

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

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

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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