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

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

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!

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

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.

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

Did you ever think you could make colors disappear right before your eyes? This science experiment is just like a magic trick: now you see it, now you don't!

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

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

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

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!

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

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

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.

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

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

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

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

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

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

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?

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.