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Has your kid noticed how much bigger the moon looks when it's low in the sky? Here's an activity you can do to show them that it's just an optical illusion.

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

Learn to solve a crime scene investigation using an important forensics tool: oblique lighting.

Looking for hot weather fun? Cool the kids down with a homemade slip and slide! You can create your own water park atmosphere for just a few bucks.

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

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 first grader get started making this watering can that's filled with homemade flowers. It will brighten up any window sill ... and it's eco-friendly!

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.

This creamy peanut butter fudge is a great first recipe to get your first or second grader involved with because it doesn't involve any time in the oven!

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Kids can make a cute fluffy bunny for Easter using a tin can and cotton balls in this creative first grade arts and crafts activity.

Show your third grader how to string together a pretty, decorative harp.

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

Let your child be a designer for the day with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a felt pillow decorated with colorful felt cut-outs.

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

This science fair project idea determines what household items are good conductors of electricity.

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

Help your child's backpack stand out from the crowd by attaching trinkets or decorations that are as one of a kind as she is.

Mason jar lights add a bit of holiday sparkle to a bland patio or dinner table. Make some mason jar lights to add to your collection of Christmas decorations.

Create some flying bats with your little one this Halloween season. This activity is a great way for your little one to learn about symmetry.

Want to help your child develop stronger numeracy skills and make your dice games even more fun? Try creating some googly-eyed funny dice.

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

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.

In this activity, kids use sponges to make textured stamps for homemade, artistic Valentine's Day cards.

Make Mom a Queen For A Day crown for Mother's Day.

This science fair project idea determines what household items are good conductors of electricity.

Is it possible to trick the forces of nature that make your bubbles round to create a square bubble?

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.