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!

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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.

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

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

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.

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

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

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 concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

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

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

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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.

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