Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

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.

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.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

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

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

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.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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!

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.

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.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

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

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.