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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

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!

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.

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.

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