1st - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 4

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

This easy and inexpensive paper towel science project introduces kids to important physical concepts like cohesion, adhesion, and capillarity.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

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

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

In this cool science experiment, learn about magnetism and poles, and test magnet strength to find out if two magnets are twice as strong as one.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

This hands-on activity will introduce your third grader to the concepts of positive and negative space as she makes a shamrock!

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Math Facts Game: A mix of musical chairs and Twister meets math. Nipping multiplication problems in the bud was never this much fun!

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.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Instead of pulling out the usual Easter decorations, have your child transform cupcake liners into mini Easter baskets.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

How does a flashlight work? Kids will make a complete circuit and explore how voltage contributes to brightness with this science fair project idea.

In this activity, your child will prepare for the first night of Passover by creating her own Seder plate.