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Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Your child can use leaves and grass to create his own outdoor art in celebration of Earth Day...all he needs are is the great outdoors and some creativity!

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

Make these homemade shell fossils and introduce your child to the wonders of science!

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Learn to solve a crime scene investigation using an important forensics tool: oblique lighting.

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

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!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Many substances are compounds of different elements. This experiment combines iodine and zinc to make zinc iodide.

Do hand soaps and sanitizers prevent the growth of bread mold? If so, why? Kids will find out with this fun and informative science fair project idea.

Learn about our response to scents that existed in our environment over evolutionary time and consider why scents might affect our mood state.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Science fair project that cultivates slime mold and monitors the stages of its development.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

In this math and science activity, help your middleschooler learn about proportion and measurement with just her shadow and a tape measure!

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

It's a rare kid who doesn't like a sandbox. Next time you're out digging, build in some earth science, too.