2nd and 3rd Grade Activities : Page 15

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

Help your crafty kid make rocket-shaped party favors to hand out to friends and family on Independence Day!

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

Using dried beans and corn, foods that are prevalent in Mexican cuisine, your child will create three-dimensional sombrero art.

Is it a bird? Is it Superman? No, it's your third grader's homemade miniature plane zooming across the room on a zip line.

Wool can absorb 1/3 of its weight in water, while still keeping the body warm. She can test this theory by performing a scientific sock comparison!

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child the helpful strategy of adding quickly to 10 in this fun and easy-to-make card game!

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.

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

Learners can hone their cutting skills while making this patriotically festive star collage!

Help your child show Dad how super he is by making this homemade superhero shirt.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will learn about emotions and how they change, just like many parts of nature. Then they will spend time outside, exploring and reflecting on what they have learned.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

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

Re-purpose an old glass bottle into a cute vase using a few pieces of felt and a little imagination.