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

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

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

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.

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!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

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.

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 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!

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

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

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

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.