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

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.

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!

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

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

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

Wondering how we know that air is there? Here's a quick and easy experiment that proves that air may be thin, but it's not too wimpy to block your shot!

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

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.

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

How to test for acids and bases? In this activity you and your child can make your own indicator from red cabbage!

Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

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

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

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

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

Teach your child some scientific basics as you explore the densities of various liquids in this fun experiment.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

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

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Here's a fun and simple activity to introduce your child to surface tension, and pull an awesome stunt in the process!

Here's a fun activity that will introduce your fourth grader to the concept of frictionless motion by constructing a hovercraft.

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.