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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.