Elementary School Activities : Page 26

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Improve critical thinking and logic skills as you compete to win in this fun, educational card game.

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Does a paper clip float? Does a sponge sink? Let your child find out! This experiment is simple science fun.

In this colorful craft, make an enchanting star card for a birthday, holiday, or just for fun with construction paper and foam sheets!

Play this game that lets you create your own silly monster drawing and helps your child practice her counting skills!

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

You won't miss the gluten in these pancakes! These delicious and nutritious flap jacks will make a fabulous addition to any breakfast table, gluten free or not!

Teach your kid a fun mathematical magic trick! All you'll need is a deck of cards and basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Every day can be Chinese New Year with a dancing dragon that your child can make at home.

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

Play tic-tac-toe and help your kid memorize multiplication facts!

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Hop to this froggy Valentine's Day craft! Your little one will love making this unique Valentine's Day card, a heart-shaped paper frog.

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Learn about the effect of artificial light on plant growth versus natural sunlight and delve into some biology and botany concepts in this science project.