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

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

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.

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

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

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

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

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

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

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

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

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

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

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

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

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

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

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

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

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.