Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

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

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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.

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

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!

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

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

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.

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

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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

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

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

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

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

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.