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Find out what it would be like to have ears shaped differently from your own! Design and make different animal ears then try them out.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners make their own bath bomb fizzies and experience what happens when they mix a base and an acid.

$10 - $20 per student Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore physics by building a catapult that launches marshmallows with household objects.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - adult 30 to 45 minutes
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This activity provides step-by-step instructions on how to build a rain stick, a musical instrument originating in South America.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore the concepts of density and basic chemical reactions as they create a homemade lava lamp effect using water, oil, food coloring, and Alka-Seltzer tablets.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will discover how to make butter from scratch. One optional tips includes adding marbles to speed up the process.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners create a straw oboe to explore sound and pitch.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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Learners will explore the chemistry of mucous and its importance to our health by following a process to make their own replica "snot." The activity includes a time and age recommendation, a materials

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this simple activity (on page 2 of the PDF), learners make a crystal garden using salt, water, and a brick.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners create music from a series of bottles filed with water. Learners discover that the sound produced by each bottle depends on the amount of water in the bottle.

free Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity related to music and sound vibrations, learners make a phonograph or record player out of simple materials. First, learners assemble the turntable, arm, and sound cone.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will practice writing while making a fun messy craft. Learners will explore texture and color as well as develop writing and fine motor skills through this activity.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this optics activity, learners use everyday materials to make a color wheel. When learners spin the wheel like a top, they will be surprised to see all the colors mixing together to appear white.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners make some music by constructing a kazoo out of a simple plastic drinking straw. Use this activity to explore sound, vibrations, and music.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 11 Under 5 minutes
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Make a big canvas of iridescent color with pvc pipe! In this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll need to cut and assemble some PVC pipe, but the pay-off, the soap-bubble canvas, is big.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can explore the process used to cast and mold molten metal, glass, and plastics.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 4 to 24 hours
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In this activity, learners make a 3-D model of DNA using paper and toothpicks. While constructing this model, learners will explore the composition and structure of DNA.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Use grape juice, baking soda, water and vinegar to make acid and base indicator paper! This activity contains a recipe and instructions for the indicator paper.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this a hands-on activity, learners explore how to put ice cream in an oven without it melting. Ideas in this activity include insulation and cooking.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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No glue is needed for learners of any age to become marshmallow architects or engineers.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes