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

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

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

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Camouflage is one of the most important animal adaptations in the African savanna biome. Kids create their own camouflage with this fun science fair project.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

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!

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.