This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.

This project compares the strength of one, two, and three-ply toilet paper.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate how yeast, a fungus, causes bread to rise.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

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

This science fair project idea investigates how color affects temperature.

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.

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.

Will potatoes spud or sprout faster in dry, dark, or cold conditions? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Explore if planting seeds in a certain direction will affect how fast it germinates.

Find the North Star, and measure your latitude! The purpose of this science fair project is to find latitude and learn about geographic locations.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

In this project, you'll build a model of the earth, complete with all seven continents and four major oceans.

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

This science fair project idea investigates how the height at which a pendulum is released affects the length of time it continues.