This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

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

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

When you see those sunscreen "protection levels," what does that really mean? Try this experiment to find out.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

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 science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

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

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

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea compares biodiversity between drops of water.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Making your own glass cleaner is easy, effective and inexpensive!

Take a closer look at your furry friend (or the furry friend of a neighbor -- with permission) to discover if communication exists between cats and humans.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

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.