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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Celebrate the popular holiday Diwali with a craft! Make a homemade diya lamp to welcome light over darkness.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Create a crafty porcupine with your first grader, and use the opportunity to teach your little one about it's ingenious (yet painful!) defense mechanism.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Is it possible to trick the forces of nature that make your bubbles round to create a square bubble?

Hand-painted pottery is the perfect way to add a bit of decoration to your potted plants.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

This autumn science project magically turns green leaves into autumn leaves by using crayon shavings and heat.

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Create cake pops in shaped like eyeballs in this extra sweet, gross-out Halloween baking activity!

Instead of heading to the craft store, take a step back in time and restock your art supply with this easy recipe for homemade ink.

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.

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

Science fair project that examines the behavior of water and gravel in creek beds and the formation of sedimentary rocks.