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Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

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

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

Chemistry isn't just incredible ... sometimes its edible! These crystal lollipops are a delicious introduction to chemistry concepts.

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

Help your curious third grader construct a dazzling spinning wheel that will teach him about the science behind colors while providing some silly entertainment!

This is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of volume, and give them a quick hands-on activity to boot.

If your science savy third grader is up for a challenge, let her bend light with a casserole dish!

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Take a look at forensic science with your child. She'll learn how to take a shoe impression, just like the detectives do!

Household items and a bit of imagination will create a CSI kit for your child to have investigative adventures with. Explore the world of forensic science!

Making your own glass cleaner is easy, effective and inexpensive!

Combine the science of physics with the fun of playing spy. Your young detective can make his own tiny looking glass. It's simple to make!

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!