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Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

These colorful paper butterflies make cute hanging decorations for your child's room, but they can also be used for active play.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

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

Made entirely out of recycled materials, this handmade decoration is a great way to spruce up a dresser, bookshelf, or the living room mantle.

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.

Looking for a way to channel your spring fever? Create a beautiful spring centerpiece with your child!

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

This butterfly costume comes together in under an hour and is perfect for your little trick-or-treater. Make this butterfly costume for Halloween or play time.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

This beautiful salad looks like a butterfly and tastes like your favorite vegetables!

Help your kid celebrate Valentine's Day and keep up with her homework with this butterfly pencil craft!

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Your child can make her own Mexican tin art mirror with cardboard, a mirror, and an aluminum pan.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

Create a brush pile to help wintering wildlife stay warm and cozy through the winter.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.