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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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

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

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

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

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.

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

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

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

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

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

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

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.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.