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Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

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

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!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

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

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.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

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

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

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

Before your treat your child (and yourself!) to a yummy snack, help her learn a little about Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion!

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

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.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

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!

Help your curious third grader construct a dazzling spinning wheel that will teach him about the science behind colors while providing some silly entertainment!

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Take to the air with science by experimenting with helicopter seeds right in your own backyard!

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

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

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

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

Help your own young scientist tackle the wonders of static electricity from the comfort of his own home!

Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.