This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

Your child can explore the wonders of science, and the concept of dehydration, along with creating a healthy and tasty treat!

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

This fun and easy middle school science fair project idea explores the topic of pollution and demonstrates if polluted soil affect the growth of green plants.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.