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

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

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

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

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.

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

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

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

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

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

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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.

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

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

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.

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.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

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!

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

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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 activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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