Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Light up the sky with this lotus lantern, a perfect way to explore Buddha Day.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Make a mood meter with your child to help them recognize and share their feelings.

Demonstrate the properties of pressure and surface tension to explain how water can stay inside an upside down glass using cardboard.

Wonder why bugs always fly around your lights at night? This experiment determines whether insects are attracted to the heat or the light.

Determine if gender affects the ability to identify different smells.

This project determines the age of a tree using a growth factor chart instead of cutting the tree down to count the rings in its base.

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

In this experiment, you experiment with laser jet toner, a magnetic fluid, as it moves, bubbles, and forms unique shapes.

What is a barycenter? Kids learn how gravity and mass influence the orbit of binary systems like planets and moons or stars and planets in this cool experiment.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

In this design challenge, students will be tasked with creating a bouncy ball polymer!

Determine how good we are at direct and indirect observation.

In this simple science project, learn about what causes dew and what affects dew formation with a drinking glass, ice, and a soda bottle.

Kids will learn about the five senses with this quick and easy art project to get them ready for school.

Devise list of randomly chosen words, test how many words volunteers can remember. Compare results of adults and children. Which have better memories?

Store seeds under three different environmental conditions. Plant seeds in carefully marked groups, watch them grow. Compare results.

Research historic methods of food preservation. Analyze alternative recipes and techniques of food preservation. Document success with photographs.

Research optical illusions and human auras. Understand why the probable cause of perception is mach bands.

This project examines whether corked bats truly make a ball travel farther than wooden bats that haven't been altered.

Thermometers are how we measure temperature, and we've all heard the terms "centigrade" and "Fahrenheit" tossed around, but what do they really mean?

Study the effect of music on random rote memory. Examine the practical application of music in learning and education.

Design and build a scale model representing living tree architecture. Then build a full-size version using one or more lives trees, and test your creation.

Find out whether people within a family tend to have matching fingerprints.

This experiment examines whether storing your orange juice at different temperatures affects its acidity.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This project explores whether there is an effect on people, including heart rate and self-expressed mood, when they are exposed to different types of music.

In this experiment you explore how tectonic plates move to create land and expand bodies of water.

Glass is see-through, but usually you can still see that it is there. In this experiment, we use baby oil to make glass go completely invisible.