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In this activity learners create patterns of hair beads.

Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.

In this hands-on botany activity, learners sprout vegetables in film canisters.

Learners cut and fold a paper helicopter from the template in this PDF. They practice twirling the helicopter and observe what happens as they modify their tries.

This warm weather activity introduces learners to the impact trees have on blocking the sun's heat and reducing temperature on the Earth's surface.

The beautiful iridescent colors of a bubble in a can! With this Exploratorium Science Snack, create beautiful soap films on the open end of a can to see beautiful rainbows of color.

In this activity, the learner will explore hand eye coordination while using a variation of the ball and cup game.

This demonstration activity models how Venus appears from Earth.

In this activity, learners explore the concept of permeability to better understand why amphibians are extremely sensitive to pollution.

Learners make bell bracelets, place them on their wrists or ankles, and then dance to the rhythms and sounds the bells make. Many cultures use ankle or wrist bells to make music during dancing.

In this activity about tangrams, learners print and cut out their own tangram shapes and solve puzzles by fitting these geometric pieces together in a variety of ways.

In this tabletop board game, players will represent a team of scientists and engineers sending a spacecraft on a mission to space.

In this activity, learners explore and compare the buoyant properties of materials found in nature and in human-made materials.

In this activity, learners build bridges using paper and explore how much weight each bridge design can support.

In this activity (11th activity on the page), learners use their sense of touch to identify matching pairs of objects hidden in bags. Learners can also play this game with partners.

In this self-measuring activity, learners measure and record the length of their foot.

In this activity, learners will build thier own balance scale. Learners will explore weight and comparison through this activity.

In this physics activity, learners will explore buoyancy.

In this activity, learners will experiment with the physics of flight by making a gliding contraption with strange looking wings. The activity explores flight with connections to the natural world.

Create an instrument that you don't play--you just listen to it through tubes of various lengths.