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• Science Experiments for Kids

• Fold 'N Fly different styles of paper airplanes. How can the science of flight help you design a better plane?

• Create the ultimate creative rolling car that can go down a ramp. How many different ideas can you try?

• Transform a sheet of paper into a fan. How many different designs can you come up with? How else can you transform paper?

• Discover how LEGO bricks are made. Can you use your LEGO to make one really big LEGO brick?

• Plan and make a model playground. Who will you make a model playground for?

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• Experiment with freezing different mixtures of water and salt. What do you notice about the amount of salt and the time it takes to freeze?

• Build a pendulum by tying a weight on a string. What do you notice about the swing when you change the length? How can you use this as a timer?

• Did you know that windshield wipers were invented by Mary Anderson? Experiment with making a model windshield wiper. What would you invent for cars?

• Take apart a click-to-write pen to see if you can get a closer look at the mechanisms that make it work.

• Interview a family member.

• Measure the area and perimeter of each room in your home.

• Graph the types of birds that frequent your yard or windows.

• Be completely silent for 60 minutes, then write about the experience.

• Build a "fable fort" out of blankets and chairs. Camp in it all day while you create stories to tell your family over dinner.

• Learn morse code and use it to communicate with your siblings through walls and floors.

• Stay up late and stargaze.

• Call a grandparent or older relative. Ask them to teach you the words to a song from their childhood days.

• Using household materials, build a working rain gauge, barometer, and wind vane.

• Determine and chart the times that different liquids require to turn solid in the freezer.

• Design and build puppets that perform a show about multiplication.

• Construct a family tree.

• Learn ten new big words. Write them in marker on your bathroom mirror.

• Draw a map of your home.

• Sit silently for 15 minutes while you write down every sound you hear. When you are done, classify the sounds (high/low pitch, high/low volume, manmade v. naturally occurring, etc.).

• Create a Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts two people in your family, your neighborhood, or your church, mosque, or temple.

• Learn, practice, and perform a magic trick.

• Learn, practice, and tell three new jokes.

• Use household materials to make and play stringed, percussion, and wind instruments.

• Learn to shine a pair of shoes.

• Collect leaves from ten different (non-harmful) plants. Sort them by size, colour, and texture.

• Put your favourite book, toy, and keepsake on a small table in sunlight. Draw or paint a full colour still life.

• Find, pick, and dissect a flower.

• If you have stairs, walk up and count them. Walk down and count by twos. Walk up and count by threes. Continue through tens.

• Determine the volumes of ten containers, them display them in order on your porch.

• Write a poem on your sidewalk using chalk.

• Classify twenty everyday objects by shape, size, colour, height, mass, and material.

• Measure the length of your bed using five different nonstandard units.

• Create and use a secret code.

• Using one type of paper (constant), build three different paper airplanes (independent variable) and test to see how far they fly (dependent variable).

• Set a clock three hours and seven minutes ahead. Whenever someone needs to know the time, help them figure it out by subtracting.

• Write down every adjective you say for one full day.

• Learn three new jokes. Tell them to a family member.

• Write or tell a story titled "What if humans had to leave the Earth and no one remembered to turn off the last robot?"

• Using paper, tape, and string, design, build, and test a device that warns you when someone opens the kitchen cabinet.

• Imagine, create, and fly a full size flag that tells the world about you.

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