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Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

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

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

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.

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

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

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

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.

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

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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

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

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

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.

Did you ever think you could make colors disappear right before your eyes? This science experiment is just like a magic trick: now you see it, now you don't!

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.