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.

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

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

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.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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.

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 an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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

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!

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

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

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

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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.

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

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.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables