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.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

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 science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

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

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

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

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

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

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

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

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

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.