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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

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

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

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!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

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

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

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.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

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

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

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

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

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

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

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.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.