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

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.

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.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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

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

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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

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.

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

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

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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

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

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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!