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This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

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.

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

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

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

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

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

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

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

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

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.

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

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

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

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?

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!