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Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

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

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

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.

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

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.

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.

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

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

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

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.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

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

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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.

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

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

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.