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Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

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

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

In this free science fair project idea, we learn about surface tension and how it can support mass—in this case, a floating paper clip.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

In this science fair project, young children notice and track changes in trees throughout the year.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Science fair project that examines the different types of precipitation, evaluates the density of snow and calculates the ratio of snow-to-liquid.

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

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

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.