Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

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.

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Make homemade lemonade in a baggie with your preschooler with this fun and easy recipe.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

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.

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

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

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

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

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