Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

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!

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

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 plant a "tea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Introduce your child to the wonders of colorful chemistry with this simple food coloring project.

Make these homemade shell fossils and introduce your child to the wonders of science!

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

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

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

This conservation of energy demonstration shows why the first hill is the highest on a roller coaster. Learn more about potential and kinetic energy!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

This science fair project idea creates a sedimentary rock and to investigate what takes place during the rock cycle.

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

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Have your child try this classic experiment that demonstrates circular motion using a bucket and rope. Be careful, you might get soaked!