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Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

This Pysanky egg-decorating activity is perfect for young artists. Bring a little color and creativity to any holiday with this traditional Ukrainian craft.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

Introduce colors to shadow play with this creative and irresistible science activity!

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

Homemade Halloween treats make great party foods for an All Hallow's Eve get together. These four homemade Halloween treats are scary-good.

Use familiar household items and decorations to turn estimation into a fun game!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

In this science experiment, observe convection currents forming and learn about how heat energy moves in liquids from hot to cooler areas through convection.

This science fair project idea explores whether mint, known for its âcooling sensationâ really does lower temperatures.

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.