Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

What is mulch? Kids will provide soil with a wet blanket of mulch and see if that helps keep drought-stricken soil damp.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Use Martin Luther King, Jr's historical "I Have a Dream Speech" to inspire your child to write down her own dreams.

In this activity, young learners will make a balance using a plastic hanger and weigh a variety of small objects using candy corn.

Chicken souse is a delicious dish native to the Caribbean. Much like American chicken soup, souse contains meat, broth and vegetables but with an island twist.

Ready for a game that's mostly about strategy with a little luck thrown in for good measure? Make math fact practice exciting and start rolling the dice!

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

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Take advantage of the summer sun to make you and your child a delightfully refreshing treat--sun tea!

Every day can be Chinese New Year with a dancing dragon that your child can make at home.

Develop your child's hand-eye coordination in a fun and engaging way by challenging her to a game of Drop Catch.

Create a beautiful piece of art to celebrate Hanukkah! Using easy to find materials, your child will create a one of a kind suncatcher great for decoration or even a gift to family and friends!

Show your fourth grader how to design and print his own chop, a Chinese "signature" of sorts that uses calligraphic characters or motifs.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

Watch the pop of complementary colors while creating a fun and beautiful collage you can create from magazine clippings.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

Find out whether optical mice are useful on all surfaces or if there are drawbacks to this supposedly superior solution to the traditional roller-ball mouse.

This is a great activity for when the kids get a little stir crazy. It works indoors or out.

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!

Heart-shaped crackers are a tasty and unexpected snack perfect for your young valentine. Combine the fun of crafting with food with these heart-shaped crackers.

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.

Explore the math concept of probability with your fifth grader on "lucky" St. Patrick's day this year!

This science fair project idea determines if the size of the parachute will change the rate at which an object falls.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.