Elementary School Activities : Page 32

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

Science fair project idea which teaches you how to make butter by separating cream into butter and buttermilk.

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

Celebrate the new year by making a memory book with your child! You'll reinforce time and calendar concepts and you'll get to reminisce about the past year.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Science fair project that demonstrates the effect of detergent pollution on fresh water birds' ability to stay afloat.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Finger puppets encourage creative play, communication, and they give you a great way to share the Passover story with your kids.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

This science fair project idea provides evidence that air is everywhere and takes up space.

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

Combat summer boredom with this easy and fun game. Race against each other to see who can fill their bucket the fastest using leaky cups!

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Examine the effect of pressure on carbonation in soda.

The purpose of this science fair project is to explore whether UV light passes through some colors and not others by looking at blue, red, purple, and clear.

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

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

Learn about the power of exponents. The objective of this science fair project is to explore and understand how exponents are used.