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

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

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

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

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

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!

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 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!

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

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!

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

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!

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

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.