Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Science fair project that determines whether lettuce that is harvested gradually yields more produce than lettuce that is harvested all at once.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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.

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.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

Is your little scientist up for a rocky challenge? Let them make their own geode rocks using eggs and epsom salts!

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

How can we describe the relationship of magnetic field strength vs. distance? Kids will find out with this free science fair project idea.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.