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

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

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

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.

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

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

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.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

Make vibrant faux stained glass art inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter who explored repeating shapes using the primary colors.

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

Penguins just may be the cutest cold-weather creatures ever! Creating this penguin is a perfect way for your tot to practice cutting out different shapes.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Lunch is always better when you share it with a wise companion This wide-eyed owl craft is a great way for your growing learner to practice cutting shapes.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

Give mom a thoughtful gift this Mother's Day by making a photo collage of her life! This is a great way for your child to practice some basic math skills too!

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

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