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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

In this project, a basketball containing different psi is dropped to see how well it bounces.

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

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

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 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.