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

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

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

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

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

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!

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

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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

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

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.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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 your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

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.

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 first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

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

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.

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.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

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.

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

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