Activities : Page 5

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to construct a parachute that will deliver an egg safely to the ground. Good luck!

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

This project examines Newton's First and Second Laws of Motion with a bicycle and water balloons.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Tired of gum with flavor that lasts for just a couple of minute? Put gum to the test with this chewy science experiment!

In this fun experiment, we'll find out how color affects heat absorption!

This experiment investigates the relationship between the temperature of a candle and its burn rate.

Brighten up everyone's day with this circular rainbow plate perfect for celebrating spring or St. Patrick's Day.

Science fair project which identifies the most effective insulator that you could use to make a winter coat by comparing how well cloth and cotton trap heat.

This experiment explores the question of whether age and/or gender play a role in people's ability to remember dreams.

Science fair project the demonstrates Newton's Third Law using a milk carton filled with water.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

This St. Patrick's Day have your little mischief-maker create a simple leprechaun disguise that's sure to inspire a some good-hearted giggling.

Discover how and which salt melts ice the quickest.

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

Create safe lightning for kids! They'll learn how to make lightning at home with this fun science fair project idea illustrating static charges and grounding.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

This science fair project aims to examine the nature of pi and analyze other properties and values related to circles, such as radius, diameter

Science fair project that examines how light wavelengths affect photosynthesis in the aquatic plant: Elodea.

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

This science fair project idea determines if the temperature of rubber effects how high it bounces.

Make a clever egg pop-up card for Easter that hides a special surprise: open the flaps, and out pops a fluffy baby chick!

Practice counting to five with your child while making this adorably "scary" ghost to celebrate Halloween.

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!