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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

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!

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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!

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.

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!

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 second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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