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What better way to celebrate spring than with a fabulous flower party? Pack the day with fun flower activities and treats for a truly springalicious event!

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

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

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

Want to spark your third grader's interest in gardening? Help him make popsicle stick fairies to decorate an enchanting garden oasis.

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

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

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

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

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

In this free science fair project idea, we learn about surface tension and how it can support mass—in this case, a floating paper clip.

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

For this science fair project, kids will learn how to make a lemon battery. They can conduct this classic experiment using readily available materials.

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

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

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

In this free science fair project, build a star clock and learn how to tell time on a clear night by observing the big dipper!

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

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

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.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.