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.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Encourage imagination and creativity with this magical craft that lets your child make and design his very own dragon egg.

From Canada's flag, to the Toronto Maple Leafs, to classic maple syrup cookies, the maple tree is very much a part of Canadian heritage.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Help your curious kid cut through the clutter and collect the facts with a simple and fun science foldable.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

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.

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

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