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

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

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

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.

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

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

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.

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

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

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

In this science fair project, young children notice and track changes in trees throughout the year.

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.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

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 science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.