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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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

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

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.