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 kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

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

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

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!

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

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.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

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.

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

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

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

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

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 child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

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

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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!

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

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

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

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.