Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

Your child will learn science and make a fun new malleable toy with this balloon sandbag science experiment.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

This project explores ways to prevent static electrical shocks.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

This science fair project idea explores how enzyme inhibitors, active sites, non-competitive enzyme inhibitors, and substrates work.

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

In this experiment, students will discover how heat and pressure turn clay into slate, phyllite, and finally schist.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

This is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of volume, and give them a quick hands-on activity to boot.

This science project teaches students to classify different shapes of leaves.

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

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 science fair project, students create their own miniature salt flats at home.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Set off an a science adventure as you prepare a row of bee homes for your new visitors.

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

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.