1st - 4th Grade Activities : Page 15

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

Looking for an easy and creative craft? Beads come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors and your kids will have fun creating unique key chains.

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!

Can your third grader catch a leprechaun using a homemade trap? Help her entice these folkloric Irish fairies with gold coins that they simply can't resist.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

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

Do hand soaps and sanitizers prevent the growth of bread mold? If so, why? Kids will find out with this fun and informative science fair project idea.

Have a little fun playing with food this Thanksgiving, and a silly harvest holiday potato with your child!

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

With a handful of craft supplies, your fourth grader can capture some of the artistic magic of the ancient Maya.

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore which other common animals besides scorpions glow under a UV Black light.

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

Have you ever seen fruit decay? Find out if a fruit will rot faster if you open it versus leaving it untouched!

Encourage your child to create a tribute to their past, and explore future dreams and goals with this narrative assemblage.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

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

Did you even wonder why some rocks are round and smooth while others are broken up into small pieces?

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Learn how to demagnetize a magnet and how physics can explain this phenomenon with this enlightening science fair project.

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

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.