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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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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

Show your child how to concoct a simple duo of household ingredients that changes color as acids and bases are added!

Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

Conduct a simple science experiment to see if flowers from your garden pass the acid-base indicator test with this exciting chemistry activity.

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

A simple science experiment exploring the physics of water pressure that's been amazing people since Medieval times.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

This science fair project demonstrates the principles of reflection through simple experiments involving mirrors and light.