Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

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!

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 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.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

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

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

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.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

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.

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

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

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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

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

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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.

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.