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This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

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.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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 kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

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!

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations