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In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

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?

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

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.

Make clothing battles a thing of the past by allowing your second grader to design his own dress-up shirt out of an ultra-comfy t-shirt for New Year's.

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

Make the world's simplest tutu. Don't worry if you aren't good with a needle--putting this no-sew tutu together is as easy as tying your shoe!

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

Transfer your child's artwork onto clothing using an iron-on transfer. It's easier than it sounds, and your child will love wearing his artwork!

Introduce your child to the concepts of positive and negative space in design with this simple yet striking Valentine's Day art project.

In this activity, your second grader will design her very own heart map to show what she's really made of.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.