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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.

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

What is a compound microscope? Kids find out by making one of their own in this cool science fair project.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

In this pinto bean germination experiment, you'll learn about how fertilizer aids in growing pinto beans into seedlings.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

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

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Help your young scientist celebrate the wonders of the night sky in the comfort of your own home.

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!

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

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!

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

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