1st - 5th Grade Activities : Page 17

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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

Let your fifth grader use his wits to challenge friends to complete their labyrinthine book of mazes!

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

These DIY star garlands will add the perfect patriotic touch to your home this 4th of July!

This fun and easy quiz show game will help your fifth grader memorize and study vocabulary from their math, science, social studies, and language arts classes!

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

The objective of this science fair project is to study the photosynthesis process and demonstrate the important role that leaves play in the process.

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Honor dad's fatherly achievements with a handmade plaque for a job well done!

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

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

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!

Baked rather than fried, these sweet potato fries are a healthier alternative to classic French fries.

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.

In this science experiment, observe convection currents forming and learn about how heat energy moves in liquids from hot to cooler areas through convection.

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!

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

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!