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Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

An home science experiment for older students that teaches about the science behind heat.

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

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

This science fair project creates a visual model of whatâs happening to sound waves as a car approaches and then leaves.

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

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!

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

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

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!

Here's an interesting activity that will enable your child to make his own magnifier out of a drop of water

Believe it or not, the common spud has enough electrochemical energy to power a small digital clock.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

An hour glass, also known as a sand clock, keeps time. In this activity, your child will make her own sand clock and measure the time it keeps.

Would your child like to learn about a hidden world? All she needs to do is open her box of markers!

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

A simple science experiment exploring the physics of water pressure that's been amazing people since Medieval times.

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.

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

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

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?