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Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

Salmonella and E.coli are common food contaminates. This experiment measures the time it takes for E.coli and Salmonella to reach hazardous levels in fish.

This tried-and-true complexion treatment is a slumber-party staple that many people swear by.

Using items around your house, create a âstoreâ and set up expressions to represent the cost of the items.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

The scientific purpose of this experiment is to investigate which material is the best packaging for fragile items during shipping.

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

Send big holiday love on a small budget by sending these "Elf Tickets" this year...and give your child some writing practice in the bargain.

Determines the extent that high school GPA predicts future income. Survey volunteers, divide GPA into 5 categories, compare income levels with GPA

Get your reluctant teen excited about writing: by alternating "found" phrases from a favorite book with his own writing, he'll create a unique, profound poem.

Culverts transport seeds away from their original location to different places. This science project examines the effect of culverts on plant growth in streams.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

Since every person's fingerprint is unique, a fingerprint keychain is a fun way for your kindergartener to leave her own special mark on a useful item.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Getting through to your tween or teen is a whole lot easier with a Family Journal that serves as an old-school, non-electronic form of communication.

Discover whether eating certain foods will make you smell (not only bad breath) but through skin cells.

When it comes to snack time, you can't have much more fun than a treat in a yummy edible bowl. Check out our quick and easy cookie cup recipe.

This experiment evaluates how a diet that is rich in "mood-enhancing" foods affects the way people feel over several weeks.

Craft your own Mardi Gras wreath to celebrate the holiday and help your kid build her fine motor skills while you're at it!

Bring the crisscrossing lines of highways and the sprawling webs of metropolitan cities to your dinner table!

This science fair project idea determines an average personâs ability to use their anaerobic power system over a period of 2 weeks.

A fun, life science sxperiment idea idea involving strategies for keeping birds away from crops using a distress call. What kind of distress call works best?

Demonstrate which cooking method gets rid of the most fat.

Find out whether pacing in long-distance running actually acquires for drastic changes in finishing times versus running super-fast at the start.

Determine if left-handed people have faster response times.

Kugel is a traditional Jewish side dish made for special celebrations, which can be either savory or sweet.

The goal of this science fair project is to identify the galactic center of the milky way using globular clusters, as found through Google Earth.

Polymers remove oil from contaminated waters. The purpose of this science project is to test the effectiveness of a polymer in cleaning up an oil spill.

Research active ingredients in anti-aging creams. Test skin creams on volunteers, document the effectiveness of the creams with before an after photographs.