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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.

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 activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

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

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.

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

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

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

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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.

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.

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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

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

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!

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.

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!

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

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.