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.

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

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

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

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

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

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.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

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

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

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!

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.

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.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

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

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

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.