Elementary School Activities : Page 109

Turn your child's favorite fruits and vegetables into an edible necklace!

This St. Patrick's Day, bond with your child over delicious potato pancakes that work for any meal.

Can you plant the insect-attracting borage plant to increase the amount of beneficial insects in your garden? Find out in this experiment!

Cook up a batch of monster blood this Halloween to add gory details to vampires, zombies, werewolves and more.

Create some commotion on your table this Halloween with some flying bats that'll be cute enough to cause a ruckus among your little party monsters.

Help your preschooler make an alternative to carrying messy sidewalk chalk in hand: a helpful, handmade sidewalk chalk caddy.

Make this easy recipe for Halloween, featuring white chocolate and pretzels, for a crispy, creepy treat!

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

Your child can use leaves and grass to create his own outdoor art in celebration of Earth Day...all he needs are is the great outdoors and some creativity!

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Not all snowmen are made of ice. This popcorn snowman tastes like the holiday season and also makes a cute decoration on any dining table.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

Help your kindergartner make a delightful and delicious lunch for the whole family.

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

What is the hydrologic cycle and how does it work? Check out this fun and easy science project where you will model and learn about Earth's water cycle!

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

Use your cookie cutters with jello to have the kids create a story with the shapes they choose.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Zombie cupcakes are baked goods that look as if they've been pulled fresh from a skull. Make zombie cupcakes this Halloween.

Science fair project in which you will learn more about the natural world by preserving and identifying different animal tracks.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

Help your child bring a bit of Halloween magic to school with a spooky ghost pen!

In this fun science experiment, kids will determine the best method for ripening avocados and discover the cool chemical reaction that makes this possible.

Make clothing battles a thing of the past by allowing your second grader to design his own dress-up shirt out of an ultra-comfy t-shirt for New Year's.