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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

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.

Make clothing battles a thing of the past by allowing your second grader to design his own dress-up shirt out of an ultra-comfy t-shirt for New Year's.

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

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

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

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 create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

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

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

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

Don't despair if numerators and denominators seem like a bore to your child. This colorful collage is sure to show him the brighter side of fractions.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

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

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

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.

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

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

Boost your child's imagination and creativity by having her design her own deck of trading cards.

Introduce your child to the concepts of positive and negative space in design with this simple yet striking Valentine's Day art project.