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Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Popsicles aren't just for the summertime, this activity takes cold and turns it into a creative and tasty science experiment.

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

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.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

In this middle school activity, your child will learn how to press plants and create her very own herbarium, or plant library! Here's how:

Does your middle school teenager have good reflexes? Gauge his reaction time in this science and math activity that requires only a yardstick and a friend.

Show your teen how to make her own beeswax lip balm. It's one of the simplest do-it-yourself activities, and it's fun to make!

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

This conservation of energy demonstration shows why the first hill is the highest on a roller coaster. Learn more about potential and kinetic energy!

In this science fair project, students will try to discover if test subjects can detect the presence of Monosodium Glutumate (MSG) in food.

This project researches whether the type of land use affects the water quality of Queenstown Creek.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

Build an electroscope, a simple device that measures static electricity, or the freely flowing electrical charges of the atmosphere!

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Determine the relationship between the speed of a sound and the temperature of the air it passes through.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.