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.

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!

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

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

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

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