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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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

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.

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.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

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

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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.

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!

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

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

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.