Activities : Page 20

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

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

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

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.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

Celebrate all your wonderful tongue taste buds with a giant paper tongue project -- you'll even get to decorate it with actual pieces of candy!

This science fair project idea determines the most effective method of preserving food.

Use Martin Luther King, Jr's historical "I Have a Dream Speech" to inspire your child to write down her own dreams.

Save some money this Halloween and work out fine motor skills by helping your child make his very own computer costume.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

Help your child learn one of the most beautiful mathematical expressions in nature as she uses the Fibonacci sequence to create a "spiral of beauty."

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Celebrate Constitution Day by learning the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution!

This project involves the programming and development of a 3D Rubik's Cube application using C++.

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.

Learn how to make a periscope with this cool engineering science fair project idea, and learn about optics to learn how a periscope works.

Not all snowmen are made of ice. This popcorn snowman tastes like the holiday season and also makes a cute decoration on any dining table.

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

Teach your fifth grader an important math concept with this quick and simple activity that shows them how to divide whole numbers by fractions.

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

Science fair project that determines whether disinfectant sprays or disinfectant soaps are more effective at removing bacteria from hands.

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces him to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Your child will "build" a snowman and lace her way around the paper plates, boosting her manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

Show your fifth grader how to create a vivid and colorful, Picasso-inspired, 3-D mask.

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.