1st and 2nd Grade Measurement Activities : Page 2

Help your child practice symmetry with this fun activity that will leave your child with a sweet symmetrical treat!

Think you need a special dehydrator to make your own fruit leather? You can actually make a delicious version of this popular kid's snack in your own oven.

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

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

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

Want a fun way to teach your kid to tell time? Making a plate clock is a great way for him to learn how to tell time in a way he'll actually find exciting.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

If you're looking for a fun way to have your child gain practice pattern-making while working out fine motor skills, making Washi eggs is the perfect activity.

Stringy orange ghoul guts are actually a healthy and gross-looking appetizer for your child's Halloween party.

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

This recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!