2nd and 3rd Grade Activities : Page 12

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

Turn a boring lunch bag into a personalized suburban house. Your child will look forward to his lunch when he has the coolest bag house on the block!

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

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

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

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

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

Make a paper floral bouquet for Mother's Day that looks as beautiful as real flowers and will last much longer!

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

Check out this cool science project idea to learn about rocks and explore the cycles of formation, breakdown, and reformation of rocks in the Earth's crust.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Celebrate April Fools' Day with a science prank that is sure to amuse...and educate too!

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

In this classic Ivory soap experiment, kids learn what happens to different types of soap in the microwave, and why!

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.