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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

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

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

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening 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!

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

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

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

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

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

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

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

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.