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Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

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

Help your curious third grader construct a dazzling spinning wheel that will teach him about the science behind colors while providing some silly entertainment!

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

An home science experiment for older students that teaches about the science behind heat.

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

Chemistry isn't just incredible ... sometimes its edible! These crystal lollipops are a delicious introduction to chemistry concepts.

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Stir up some enthusiasm for experimentation with this candy-cracking science experiment!

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!