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

This craft has your child creating unique earrings and necklaces from self-hardening clay and acrylic paint.

Kids love making shapes with Play-Doh, so they'll love creating their own colorful playful clay!

In this activity, students will create a stop motion animation by creating a clay figure and taking a series of digital photographs.

Here's a fun preschool arts and crafts activity: make homemade clay bead jewelry. All you need is flour, cornstarch, and salt to get started.

This clay doesn't need to go into the oven. Brew up a batch, let your child shape it, and dry overnight. By morning, it's ready for paint. Perfect for holidays!

Make a batch of chocolate clay to teach kids the art of molding and sculpting. Working with their hands has never been this much fun.

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

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.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

This science fair project idea explores how enzyme inhibitors, active sites, non-competitive enzyme inhibitors, and substrates work.

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

Create a face of a person or animal on a small terra cotta flower pot and grow herbs or a flowered plant for their hair! As the herbs grow, the hair grows.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

This hanging wall pot made from homemade clay is a perfect arts and crafts activity for preschoolers.

Winter is a great time to build a friendly snowman! Turn regular modeling clay into a glittery snowy surprise.

In this experiment, students will discover how heat and pressure turn clay into slate, phyllite, and finally schist.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Air-drying clay gives your young artist the opportunity to make a simple bowl that mimics the beauty of an autumn leaf.

Make a clay sculpture of a fall tree to celebrate the changing seasons and bring out the artist in your third grader.

Explore griffins, dragons, and other medieval mythical beasts through sculpture by making your own bas relief beast out of modeling clay.

This versatile clay-like material hardens if left out and can be used for building sand castles, forts, and even school projects.

Got a young scientist at home? Try this project with him!Create your own molecule design with this home-made clay recipe and some toothpicks!

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

Practice counting with this winter kindergarten art project! As your child sculpts a clay igloo, he will work on math and dexterity and learn about snow.

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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.