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Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

In this physics project, you'll learn how to find the maximum height of a projectile using some math and trigonometry.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this game, players will learn interesting facts about animal adaption and practice them using a fun matching card game!

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Here's a way to make history both interesting and relevant: design a garden using plants that were used by people in colonial times!

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

This experiment evaluates if people of a specific gender or age more likely have an elevated number of taste buds, allowing them to taste what others cannot.

The goal of this science fair project is to demonstrate current methods of detecting counterfeit money, in particular counterfeit detection pens.

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.