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Plan ahead for summer, by constructing a holiday calendar with your child. A great way to teach kids about time!

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

This science fair project idea creates an underwater habitat and explores the basic needs of living things under water.

Science fair project that cultivates slime mold and monitors the stages of its development.

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

see whether all liquids evaporate at the same rate. In other words, does water evaporate at the same rate as juice?

Thanksgiving is a time to be with loved ones. It's also a time to chow down! Need help in the kitchen? There's no better helper than an avid fourth grader.

Examine the presence of seeds in open fields. Collect seeds on socks by walking through open fields of grass or other growth. Germinate seeds on socks

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Preschoolers are fascinated by how colors can be mixed to form new ones. This activity combines color mixing with the concept of melting for extra science fun.

The purpose of this science fair project is to investigate which food wrapping works best to keep refrigerated and non-refrigerated foods from spoiling.

This science fair project idea investigates food preference of birds.

The purpose of this science fair project is to investigate whether cooking seeds before planting will speed up germination and growth.

Here's an activity to inspire your preschooler to learn to recognize numbers and count than by using fun and funky rubber stamps to make her own flashcards!

This project explores whether music affects the growth and health of plants.

Ethanol can be used as an alternative fuel! The purpose of this experiment is to identify a starch plant that produces the largest quantity of ethanol.

This science fair project idea determines which flower lasts the longest.

Science fair project that determines the relationship between the temperature and the rate of cricket chirping. How many times do crickets chirp each minute?

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Teach your child what a sugar plum is with this easy recipe that gets your child to chop, mix, and roll his way to a delicious treat.

Demonstrate the capillary function in plants by adding food coloring to glasses of water. Slice stalks of celery and leafy tops. Compare color of leaves

Science fair project that tests the correlation between outdoor temperature or weather conditions and the number of visible stars at night.

Help your child develop his counting and language skills with this fun activity. He'll be a number hero for a day and learn about safety while he's at it.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Check out this fun science fair project idea to determine if the size of a particle affect the rate or speed of a chemical reaction.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.