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.

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

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!

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:

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.

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

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

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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

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!

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

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.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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

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