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

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.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

This easy Halloween-themed science experiment for first-graders is perfect for chilly October afternoons or great as a Halloween party activity.

This science fair project idea determines if the size of the parachute will change the rate at which an object falls.

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

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.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

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!

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

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

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

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

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

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

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

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

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

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

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.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

This is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of volume, and give them a quick hands-on activity to boot.

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.

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.