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

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

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

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

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!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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.

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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

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!

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.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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