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These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

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

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

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.

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

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

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

Household items and a bit of imagination will create a CSI kit for your child to have investigative adventures with. Explore the world of forensic science!

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

In this activity, your child will make her own "quicksand" to better understand how a substance can be both fluid and solid at the same time.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Do you have your isopods straight? Learn about sow bug and pill bug behavior by building a terrarium to study them in!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Combine the science of physics with the fun of playing spy. Your young detective can make his own tiny looking glass. It's simple to make!

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.