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Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

These DIY star garlands will add the perfect patriotic touch to your home this 4th of July!

Help your fifth grader honor Black History month and the musical genre of jazz by crafting decorative music notes embellished with jazz musical instruments.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Help you child learn the colors of the rainbow and paint them in order by making a beautiful rainbow pot.

Hop over to the craft table and make this easy bunny puppet!

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

Now you can have baby chicks around any time of year, with this simple egg carton craft idea.

Kids will discover the meat science behind the meat they eat, and find out how to use safe chemistry to make meat more tender.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

Celebrate the spirit of Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech with this meaningful and educational art project.

A riff on the classic board game, St. Patrick's Day Snakes and Ladders is a fun game the whole family can enjoy.

This science fair project idea examines whether plants are still able to grow normally if they are turned upside-down.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Learn about lateral earthquake motion and its effect on high rise buildings in this simple 4th grade earth science experiment.