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.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

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.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Introduce your child to the wonders of colorful chemistry with this simple food coloring project.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

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.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

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

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

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

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

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

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.