This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

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

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

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

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

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

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

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.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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

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

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

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

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.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

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

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.