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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.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

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.

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.

Turn sweet treats into miniature masterpieces with this candy melting activity!

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Explore geometric shapes and pattern as your child makes her very own Hawaiian kapa cloth.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Learn about nature while creating a nest for baby chicks with this project that is a fun way to explore how to layer shapes and create texture.

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!

Patterns come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. As your child alters one element and then another they'll create a unique piece of artwork.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Recycle bottles of different shapes and sizes to create a group of unique dolls that are as unique as the real people around you!

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Explore measurement with your second grader and make this terrific holiday craft.

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.

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

Before your treat your child (and yourself!) to a yummy snack, help her learn a little about Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion!

No big beach party or a sudsy seafood feast should be without this bright, colorful tablecloth!

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

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

This hungry lunch bag monster will rev up your childâs appetite and get him excited about whatâs inside.