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!

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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

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

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

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

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

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

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

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

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.

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 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.

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

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!

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

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

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!

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

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 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.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

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

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

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.

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

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.