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  • Thanksgiving Craft: Leafy Turkey

    You and your child's hands are overflowing with a bounty of colorful fall leaves. What can you do with all this beauty? We suggest turning your treasures into a turkey tail or two.

  • Out-of-the-box Ways to Celebrate Parent's Day!

    Once a year on the fourth Sunday in July, we honor those unsung heroes -- parents. Not sure how to celebrate? These innovative ideas are sure to get your creative juices flowing.

  • Kids' Activity: Earth Hour Ideas

    For just one hour, kids and families and organizations worldwide will come together to turn out their lights and show it's possible to have an impact on climate change. Snag the kids' attention and help them participate in Earth Hour's voluntary power down with these ideas.

  • Kid's Activity: April Fool's Day!

    April Fool's Day is one we celebrate by having fun with harmless, practical jokes that leave everyone -- including the one being "pranked" laughing! Remember, it is never okay to do something mean or unkind to someone else.

  • Kid's Activity: Create Your Own Fossil!

    Fossils offer us clues about life in the past -- even years and years ago! Normally when a plant or animal dies, its remains either decay or perhaps are consumed by another animal. Sometimes though before that happens the conditions can be just right and the remains become buried and preserved.

  • Kid's Activity: Straw Hats!

    Straw hats often conjure up favorite memories -- of dropping a line in the pond out back, of walking through rows upon rows of corn in the fields, of curling up under a tree enjoying a favorite book...

  • Kid's Activity: Easy Breakfast Sandwich!

    Kids on the go need fuel! When you wake up in the morning, your body is like a car that has been on a long drive and hasn't been to the gas station. It needs its tank filled! The similarity ends there though. People fuel up in the kitchen after a long night's sleep.

  • Kid's Activity: Let's Go -- International!

    Have you always wanted to take a trip to a foreign land? Perhaps you want to visit Egypt, Ireland, India, China, or Italy! While you wait for that dream vacation you can experience the next best thing. Go international -- at home!

  • Kid's Activity: Understanding Tsunamis

    Several people wanted to know why this earthquake produced a tsunami when most earthquakes do not. To understand that, we need to know about faults. Before you start listing all my faults, such as forgetting to include parts of the experiment, I am talking about geologic faults.

  • Kid's Activity: Learn About Earthquakes!

    Anytime there is an earthquake, the news media makes a big point of talking about the Richter Scale, using it to indicate how bad the earthquake was. As we will see, the Richter Scale does not tell us nearly as much about surface effects as people think it does.

  • Kids' Activity: Earth Hour Ideas

    For just one hour, kids and families and organizations worldwide will come together to turn out their lights and show it's possible to have an impact on climate change. Snag the kids' attention and help them participate in Earth Hour's voluntary power down with these ideas.

  • Kid's Activity: Understanding Tsunamis

    Several people wanted to know why this earthquake produced a tsunami when most earthquakes do not. To understand that, we need to know about faults. Before you start listing all my faults, such as forgetting to include parts of the experiment, I am talking about geologic faults.

  • Kid's Activity: Let's Make a Dress-up Box!

    Dress up is one of the simplest activities and it often can be overlooked! Take advantage of your child's gifts of imagination. Who "to be" today? Assemble a dress up box for your child. Include items such as:

  • Kid's Activity: Galileo Thermometer

    An inventor is someone that uses his or her imagination and creative thinking to create something useful for the first time. These people pay attention to all that is around them. They also ask questions and keep on doing so until they can find their answer!

  • Kid's Activity: Let's Make a Super Easy Kite!

    What child wouldn't love to feel the tug of the wind on a string? Kites have been mentioned throughout history for over two thousand years! Their uses have been extremely varied. Did you know that kites have been used in battles, as a fishing technique, for study of the weather?

  • Kid's Activity: Learn About Earthquakes!

    Anytime there is an earthquake, the news media makes a big point of talking about the Richter Scale, using it to indicate how bad the earthquake was. As we will see, the Richter Scale does not tell us nearly as much about surface effects as people think it does.

  • Kid's Activity: Natural Dyes

    Try out nature's very own dyes! Did you know that a great source for natural dyes can be found right outside your door? Roots, nuts and flowers are just a few common natural ways to make many colors. Yellow, orange, blue, red, green and brown are readily available

  • Kid's Activity: Make a Clay Map!

    Early peoples used various local materials in their mapmaking. Some maps were painted on rocks; others were woven in reeds; sometimes sea shells marked the spot. Eskimos carved wooden maps from driftwood. Chinese pained maps on silk cloth. Babylonians scratched maps in soft clay.

  • Out-of-the-box Ways to Celebrate Parent's Day!

    Once a year on the fourth Sunday in July, we honor those unsung heroes -- parents. Not sure how to celebrate? These innovative ideas are sure to get your creative juices flowing.

  • Kid's Activity: April Fool's Day!

    April Fool's Day is one we celebrate by having fun with harmless, practical jokes that leave everyone -- including the one being "pranked" laughing! Remember, it is never okay to do something mean or unkind to someone else.