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.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

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.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

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.

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

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.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

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!

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

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.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

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 science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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