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!

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

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

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

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

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

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

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

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

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

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!

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

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!

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

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

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

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.

This science fair project idea teaches to understand and explore the concepts of crystal formation and dissolving substances.

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

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

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.

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

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

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

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

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

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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