Elementary School Activities : Page 13

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Create a little magic with this special craft that transforms a regular paper tree into a Valentine masterpiece.

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

How does rust form? Kids will learn about the roles oxygen, water, and electrons play in rust chemistry in this cool science fair project idea.

Milk is made of water and fat; but how can you separate the two? Find out in this color changing milk experiment.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Kids conduct a cool balloon rocket experiment in this fun science fair project idea. Does a greater volume of air mean a greater distance traveled?

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

In this CD hovercraft science project, students will construct their own DIY hovercraft.

This reindeer hat is cute and festive for your child during the holiday season. Make a reindeer hat this Christmas with your child.

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Show your kindergartener how to craft a pretty Mother's Day jewelry box that's fit for the baubles of a queen (or at least an extra special mom)!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

Bring historical figures alive with this fun family activity! Your child will plan a founding fathers feast by researching historical figures.

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.