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

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

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

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

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

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!

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

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

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

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

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

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?

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.

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

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.