Activities : Page 16

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Build a magnetic linear accelerator using a ruler, neodymium magnets, and small metal balls in this fun science fair project exploring magnetic propulsion.

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Honor our 16th president by having your kid assemble his famous stovepipe hat! This Abe Lincoln hat craft is the perfect way to celebrate Presidents Day.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Boiling water in a paper cup is possible because of convection and the thermal properties of water and paper. Learn how with this fun science fair project idea.

This light bulb science project includes step-by-step instructions for testing the heat from different light bulbs.

Learn the basic structure of a DNA strand, which is the double helix, how genes form together, and the resemblance DNA has to a twisted ladder. Create a model.

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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

This project explores the effectiveness of various common household ingredients in cleaning tarnished and oxidized coins.

Have you ever noticed the ridges on a dog's nose? In this project, we take several dogs' nose prints and discover just how unique they are!

This fascinating science fair project explores eye color genotypes.

This science fair project idea examines eye color genetics and the role it plays in eye color inheritance.

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Science fair project which teaches you about the principles of physics within a vacuum by creating a vacuum chamber.

Kids build a rainforest food web to explore trophic levels in this cool science fair project for 4th grade.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Learn about the role of Earth's rotation on the Coriolis Effect and hurricanes in this science project. Model the Coriolis Effect on a hurricane's direction.

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a few riotous rounds of Hot Potato--played with a real potato!

It's not actually that hard to get energy from garbage! Kids learn how to make biogas in the form of methane with this cool and easy science fair project idea.

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

Your child will love these Easter eggs with a soft touch. There are lots of skills at work here, including fine motor, measuring, and patterning!

This shamrock magnet is the perfect project for St. Patrick's Day. It's simple to make and will fill your refrigerator with Irish spirit!