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Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

Every time a sound is produced it emits a sound wave. This experiment demonstrates how sound travels, using nothing more than a spoon and a string!

Experiment with buoyancy to learn how a submarine rises and sinks in this classic science experiment.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

With this activity, not only will you be experimenting with giving accurate information, you'll also teach your child how to write good scientific procedures.

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Explore the chemistry of latex polymers with this outrageous, hilarious science activity.

Before digital cameras, before Polaroids, there was the original pinhole camera. Build a pinhole camera and see what true vintage photography looks like!

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.

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

Future whistleblowers can learn about product safety standards with this exercise in writing and researching.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Would your child like to learn about a hidden world? All she needs to do is open her box of markers!

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!

Wool can absorb 1/3 of its weight in water, while still keeping the body warm. She can test this theory by performing a scientific sock comparison!

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

Has your kid noticed how much bigger the moon looks when it's low in the sky? Here's an activity you can do to show them that it's just an optical illusion.

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Here's a fun activity that will introduce your fourth grader to the concept of frictionless motion by constructing a hovercraft.