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

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

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

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

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.

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.

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

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

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!

This easy Halloween-themed science experiment for first-graders is perfect for chilly October afternoons or great as a Halloween party activity.

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

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.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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!

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.

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

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

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

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

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

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

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.

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