Preschool - 3rd Grade Earth and Space Science Activities

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

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

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

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.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

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

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.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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

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.

Your preschooler wonât need a passport to go on this nature safari! All you need are paper, crayons and a nature trail or your back yard.

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!