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Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

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

In this activity, find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy!

Here's a fun activity that will introduce your fourth grader to the concept of frictionless motion by constructing a hovercraft.

Have you or your child ever heard that nursery rhyme and wondered just what curds and whey are anyway? Do this simple experiment together to find out!

Your child can explore the wonders of science, and the concept of dehydration, along with creating a healthy and tasty treat!

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

Science fair project that studies how the brain transforms man-made symbols into meaningful concepts.

Is there any correlation between hot tubs and high blood pressure? Kids discover the answer (and its biological basis) in this cool science fair project.

What's the difference between a microwave and an oven? Use mashed potatoes to explore which kitchen appliance does a better job at keeping food warm.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

This science experiment tests if dog saliva can really help heal wounds.

Explore the neural and mental mechanisms at play in mental imagery.

What if the shape of the Earth weren't spherical? How does its shape affect our gravity, climate, and tides? Model these questions in this cool project!

Here's how you and your teen can stage your own formal debateâbeyond arguing why chores are unethical! Formal debates improve teens' critical thinking skills.

Science fair project that compares the relative carbon dioxide concentrations of various gases, including different types of vehicle emissions.

What is vegetative reproduction? Find out how you can clone plants and regrow cabbage from a stem in this cool experiment!

How does rust form? Kids will learn about the roles oxygen, water, and electrons play in rust chemistry in this cool science fair project idea.

How is NASA able to launch something into orbit around the Earth? Learn about the relationship between gravity, speed, and orbit in space in this cool project!

Explore concepts in current and coltage with these Van de Graaff generator experiments.

Kids learn how to make a simple electric motor in this great engineering science fair project that teaches them how current generates its own magnetic field.