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

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

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.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

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 project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Find out whether soil amendments can improve soil conditions and help you grow a bigger beanstalk in this ecology experiment!

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

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

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

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

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

Want to spark your third grader's interest in gardening? Help him make popsicle stick fairies to decorate an enchanting garden oasis.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.