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

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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

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

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

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

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

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

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

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!

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

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.

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

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

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.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

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

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

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

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

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.

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

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!