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.

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!

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

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Camouflage is one of the most important animal adaptations in the African savanna biome. Kids create their own camouflage with this fun science fair project.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

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.

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

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Did you ever think you could make colors disappear right before your eyes? This science experiment is just like a magic trick: now you see it, now you don't!

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

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!

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

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.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.