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

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

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

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.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

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

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

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

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

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

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

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!

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

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!

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

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!

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!

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.