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This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

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

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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

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

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

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

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

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

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.

Handedness and footedness refer to whether people prefer to use their left or right hand and foot. In this experiment, test hand and foot dominance.

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

In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create their own tic-tac-toe grid out of building blocks.

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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 design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Show your kids the power of baking powder by conducting a simple experiment. Make four batches of cornbread, all identical except for one thing: baking powder!

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

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.

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!