In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

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

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

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

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

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!

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

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

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!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

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!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

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

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

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

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.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

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!