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Rolling Action Art
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In this activity, learners of all ages will roll a ball coated with paint to artistically visualize the motion of the object.

Solve The Fall
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In this twist on a classic design challenge, learners will try to stop a bouncy ball from bouncing as they explore how to control the fall of an object.
Counting Books: Make Your Own!
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On the first night, I saw 5 stars in the desert. On the second night, I saw 10… What do you think I saw on the third night? Combine arts and crafts, literacy, and math by making a counting book.

Make an Animation
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In this activity, learners make a device called a phenakistoscope, which displays a continuously looping animation consisting of images drawn onto a spinning disc.

The Four-Square Quilt
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In this activity, learners arrange triangles together to make patterns to create paper quilts. Learners experiment with arranging the triangles in different ways to make various designs.

Floating Butterfly
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In this activity, learners create a cool floating animal using the science of magnetism. Learners discover what happens when a piece of magnetic metal enters a magnet's field.

Fly a Hot-Air Balloon
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Learners assemble a hot-air balloon from tissue paper. The heated air (from a heat gun) inside the balloon is less dense than the surrounding air and causes the balloon to float.

Making a Translation Tessellation
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In this activity, learners slide shapes to create unusual tiled patterns.

Simple Pop-Up Mechanisms
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In this activity, learners construct three quick and simple mechanisms to start building a pop-up book. Learners fold, cut, and glue paper to make a bird beak, parallelogram, and V-fold.

Bird Feeders
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In this activity, learners build a bird feeder or feeders to attract birds for observation.

Marshmallow Models
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No glue is needed for learners of any age to become marshmallow architects or engineers.

Wolf Postures
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In this activity, learners investigate how wolves communicate with each other through different body postures.

Crystal Stencil Stars
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In this activity on page 6 of the PDF, learners dissolve Epsom salt in water and discover that the resulting solution can be used to create a work of art.

Marshmallow Catapult
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In this activity, learners explore physics by building a catapult that launches marshmallows with household objects.

Solidly Platonic
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In this activity, learners follow simple directions to explore and create platonic solids.

Shrinky Dinks
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Heat makes some materials expand, and it makes others shrink.

Kepler Paper Model
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In this activity, learners build a paper model of the spacecraft and photometer (telescope) used during NASA's Kepler Mission.

Self-Portrait Silhouettes: Activity 2
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In this activity, learners make a photographic image—without a camera!

Building Bridges
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In this activity, learners explore the engineering design process and the basic mechanics behind building bridges as they build one themselves using gumdrops and toothpicks.

Design and Build a Wind Vane
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In this activity, learners design and build a simple wind vane —one of the oldest kinds of weather tools— and use it to show wind direction.