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.

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

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

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

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.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

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

The objective of this science fair project is to investigate salt water density.

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

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.

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

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

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!

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

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

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

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.

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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!

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.