In this activity, your students will make their own bubble tools, then create giant bubbles with them.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will create marbleized paper through a Japanese technique called Suminagashi. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create marbleized paper with shaving cream and food coloring. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create ramps or "ski jumps" that they will launch their marbles off of, trying to send the marbles flying as far as they can. (read more)

In this activity, your students will be challenged to build a sturdy bridge using just 5 sheets of paper and masking tape. (read more)

In this activity, your students will measure how well different parts of their skin can sense touch. (read more)

In this activity, your students will experiment with separating the colors used to make black markers and make some beautiful patterns in the process. (read more)

In this activity, your students will hear a story about the Wampanoag people and the Cranberry Day holiday.  (read more)

In this activity, your students will preserve cranberries by drying them over a few weeks time and will make recipes using cranberries. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create their own face masks.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will measure how much air their lungs hold in one breath.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will challenge themselves to pass a hula hoop around the group as quickly as they can. (read more)

In this activity, your students will practice estimating how many times they can do a chosen activity in one minute. (read more)

In this activity, students will measure their own heart rates using homemade stethoscopes. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make their own homemade butter. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create loops in their marble-rolling tracks.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will roll marbles down tracks of varying angles to determine the effect the track angle has on the speed of the rolling balls. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create a play about life on the sea, and then they’ll act it out. (read more)

In this activity, your students will experiment with different ways of lighting their light bulbs, then they’ll create luminaria that will light up the room. (read more)

In this activity, your students will take all that they’ve learned about balls and tracks and create a roller coaster for their marbles to travel on. (read more)

Read this story to your students before doing the Ayo activity. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make and play a version of a traditional board game played in Nigeria, Cape Verde and other African countries. (read more)

In this activity, your students will build new tops with different-sized plates to see if wider tops spin differently than narrower ones. (read more)

 In this activity, your students will build new tops with multiple plates to see if heavier or lighter plates spin longer. (read more)

In this activity, your students will build spinning tops out of simple materials.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will predict what will pass by them outside, and they will play a bingo game with the results. (read more)

In this activity your students will figure out how to tell if an egg is fresh or old without opening it up. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make “telephones” out of different kinds of string and different kinds of cups and cans. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make “telephones” out of different kinds of string and different kinds of cups and cans, and will try to invent a conference call system that allows more than 2 users to listen in. (read more)

In this activity, your students will write a book about their afterschool program.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will build their own mini golf courses using recycled materials. (read more)

In this activity, your students will play a matching game in which one student will arrange a set of objects on the table in front of them and then will describe the setup to their partner.  Without seeing the first player’s arrangement, the second player will try to recreate the exact same setup on the table in front of them just using their partner’s verbal instructions. (read more)

In this activity, your students will write down their recipes for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the teacher will follow these instructions—often resulting in anything but an edible sandwich! (read more)

In this activity, your students will study what foods pigeons (or other local birds) like to eat. (read more)

In this activity, your students will either reflect upon an experience they’ve just had or can simply record observations made outside or inside their afterschool center.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will create shadow puppets out of simple materials, which they can use to create a shadow puppet play. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make their own basic homemade cheese. (read more)

In this activity, your students will reach into a “mystery box” and try to guess what it is they are touching. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make jewelry out of recycled material. (read more)

In this activity, your students will invent their own strawberry bread recipes, then they will try a traditional Native American recipe for this food. (read more)

In this activity, your students will challenge themselves to send a “pulse” around the room as fast as they can. (read more)

 In this activity, your students will draw each other’s silhouettes. (read more)

In this activity, your students will sniff “mystery smells” and see if they can figure out what is what. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create an advertisement for the sodas they created in Soda Science - Improving Your Recipe. (read more)

In this activity, your students will perfect the recipe they developed in the first Soda Science activity. (read more)

In this activity, your students will name the sodas they created in Soda Science - Improving Your Recipe and conduct a marketing survey to determine what other kids think of it. (read more)

In this activity (the first of the Soda Science series), your students will create and sample their own “soda” recipes, make changes to the recipe, and see if they can create a drink that tastes as good as (or better!) than the store bought kinds. (read more)

In this activity, your students will build structures with wooden dowels and rubber bands. (read more)

 In this activity, your students will build structures with paper, straws and pipe cleaners. (read more)

In this activity, your students will map their tongues for salty, bitter, sweet and sour tastes.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will run a taste “relay race”, and learn about the relationship between smell and taste. (read more)

In this activity, your students will map the cold and pain sensors on their skin. (read more)

In this activity, your students will test whether they can tell, without looking, exactly where an object has touched their skin. (read more)

In this activity, your students will search for living things and make drawings of what they find.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will challenge themselves to build as long a chain of words as they can.   (read more)

In this activity, your students will try to guess what another student is thinking of by asking 20 "yes" or "no" questions. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make changes to their recipes from the Cupcake Science activity and try to make even more delicious cupcakes. (read more)

In this activity, your students will write and perform a shadow puppet play using the puppets they created in the Shadow Puppets activity. (read more)

In this activity, your students will survey their peers about their recipe and then consider making changes according to what they learn. (read more)

In this activity, your students will mess around with a homemade substance called “flubber”, which sometimes acts like a liquid and sometimes like a solid.  You may recognize it as Silly Putty. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make a musical instrument with glasses of water. (read more)

In this activity, your students will experiment with the sounds made by plucking a tight string. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make ice cream using coffee cans and buckets. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create their own ice cream recipe and will then name and advertise their new product. (read more)

In this activity, your students will experiment with different ice solutions with which to make ice cream. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make ice cream using simple ingredients and materials. (read more)

In this activity, your students will try to figure out what is hidden inside a set of “sound cups” just using their sense of hearing. (read more)

In this activity, your students will mess around with a home made substance called “Oobleck”, which sometimes acts like a liquid and sometimes like a solid. (read more)

In this activity, your students will get together to write a story that they will tell to their class. (read more)

In this activity, the last of the Tops series, your students will use everything they have learned about building tops to create the longest-spinning top that they can. (read more)

In this activity, your students will experiment with ways to catch a “moving fish’” and then make a fishnet by hand tying strips of string or rope. (read more)

In this activity, your students will experiment with baking powder and baking soda and will discover why it is used in cake recipes. (read more)

In this activity, your students will hear a story about the Wampanoag people before doing the spring Wampanoag activities. (read more)

In this activity, your students will invent a cupcake recipe and bake their own cupcakes. (read more)

In this activity, your students will take a close look at their eyes and see what happens to their eyes when it’s light or dark in the room. (read more)

In this activity, your students will try to determine where different sounds are coming from just using their sense of hearing.  Then they will try the same experiment with one ear blocked. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make their own homemade paper. (read more)

In this activity, your students will guess what object a classmate is holding up after seeing its shadow. (read more)

In this activity, your students will design and construct gift cards using their handmade paper from the Paper Making activity. (read more)

In this activity, your students (and you!) will make their own homemade juggling balls, and will then learn how to juggle. (read more)

In this activity, your students will learn how to light a light bulb with a battery, and will experiment with different ways of lighting multiple bulbs. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make and play a version of a traditional Japanese board game. (read more)

In this activity, your students will construct their own tangram set which they will then use to play this traditional Chinese puzzle game. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make and play the Wampanoag game "hubbub". (read more)

In this activity, your students will hear a story about Wampanoag celebrations and activities in winter before doing the Wampanoag Winter activities. (read more)

In this activity, your students will compare how easy or hard it is to accomplish a task with two eyes vs. one eye, and then they will compare their left and right eyes. (read more)

In this activity, your students will play a game in which they have to guess the definitions of new words. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create wind chimes out of found objects. (read more)

In this activity, your students will build hanging mobiles out of simple materials. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make nephoscopes (or "cloud viewers") and use them to determine the direction that the wind is blowing in. This activity will only work when there are clouds in the sky and works best on partly cloudy days. (read more)

In this activity, your students will hear two stories that introduce them to the Wampanoag people and the Strawberry Thanksgiving celebration. (read more)

In this activity, your students will investigate a variety of fruits and vegetables to see if they sink or float in water. (read more)

In this activity, your students will figure out how to tell the difference between raw and hard-boiled eggs without cracking them open. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create quick little drawings and then write stories about them. (read more)

  In this activity, your students will create beautiful art using found objects. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create beautiful art using food items from the grocery store. (read more)

In this activity, your students will investigate the freezing rates of different liquids by making their own homemade popsicles. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create their own popsicle recipes and try them out. (read more)

In this activity, your students will get together to write a story about the summer that they will tell to their class. (read more)

In this activity, your students will design rockets, launch them and then improve their design. (read more)

  In this activity, your students will continue to work on their paper rocket designs that they strated with the Paper Rockets activity, and then they will have a final "Blast-Off" with the rest of the teams. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create a persuasive ad "selling" a chosen insect. (read more)

In this activity, your students will investigate the sugar content of breakfast cereals. (read more)

In this activity, your students will investigate the nutritional information of some foods that they might commonly eat. (read more)

In this activity, your students will dissect and examine fruits and vegetables. (read more)

  In this activity, your students will experiment with bubbles created by different-shaped objects. (read more)

In this activity, your students will design, create and modify their own recipe for a fruit or vegetable dip. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make floating boats out of aluminum foil and they will test how much weight their creations can hold before sinking. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make floating boats out of clay and they will test how much weight their creations can hold before it sinks. (read more)

In this activity, your students will design and draw an insect or other small creature that they invent. In the follow-up activity Build a Critter they will create a 3-D model of their critter. (read more)

In this activity, your students will make dolls out of corn husks, in the tradition of the Wampanoag Tribal Nation in Massachusetts. (read more)

In this activity, your students will play a game called "Captain’s Coming", which is similar to "Simon Says"—with a few twists. (read more)

In this activity, your students will play a game called Story Tag, in which they will invent a story together as a group. (read more)

In this activity, your students will explore how you can remove an eggshell without cracking open the egg! (read more)

In this activity, your students will create their own games that children from Native American tribes all across North America have played for many, many years. (read more)

In this activity your students will create a special paint out of eggs and create paintings with it. (read more)

In this activity your students will create colorful mosaics using crushed eggshells. (read more)

Create your own dyed eggs using these natural materials! (read more)

In this activity, your students will be challenged to protect an egg from breaking after it is dropped from a set height using only the materials you provide them! (read more)

In this activity, your students will search for bugs and make drawings of what they observe. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create a 3-D model of the animal they invented in the Design a Critter activity. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create stamps of adinkra symbols, and will use the stamps to create unique patterns on cloth or paper. Each "adinkra" work of art will tell a story in symbols! (read more)

Read this story to your students before, after or while doing the Adinkra and Adinkra Stamps activities. (read more)

In this activity, your students will learn how the Ghanaian art of adinkra printing uses symbols to tell a story or honor a special occasion. (read more)

In this activity (best done with younger children), your students will come together in a group "palaver hut" to listen to a Liberian folktale and use the story’s lessons to problem solve together. (read more)

Read this story to your students before doing the Mekena activity. (read more)

Can you build your own toy car? Kids in African countries such as Ethiopia, Malawi and Kenya love to play with toys that they buy in stores or receive as gifts...just like the children in your afterschool program. In many countries across Africa, some children might not have a toy that they would like...so they improvise and make their own out of whatever they can find. This (read more)

In this activity, your students will play a logic game that builds basic adding and subtracting skills. (read more)

Read this story to your students before doing the My Own Soccer Ball activity. (read more)

In this activity, your students will be challenged to create a soccer ball out of recycled materials. (read more)

In this activity, your students will play a game called "Color, Colorcito", which is played by many children in Spain. (read more)

In this activity, your students will test how strong seemingly fragile eggshells can actually be.  This activity contains preparation instructions for all Incredible Egg activities. (read more)

In this activity, your students will choose products to test, design tests to determine which brands are the best buy, then decide how to share their results with others. (read more)

In this activity, your students will design and conduct scientific tests to determine which brand of facial tissue performs the best, and which is the best buy. (read more)

In this activity, your students will play with colored drops of water and will then play a game that uses what they have learned. (read more)

In this activity, your students will play a game that builds basic math and literacy skills. (read more)

In this activity, your students will create their own homemade snow globes. (read more)

In this activity, your students will test the materials necessary to make their own mini snow globes. (read more)