Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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!

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.

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

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

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

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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

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

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

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 young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

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

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

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 science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

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