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

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!

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

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.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

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

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

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.

In this activity, find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy!

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Test your skills as a weather forecaster, and learn some science terms on the way!

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

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

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

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

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

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!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.