2nd and 3rd Grade Activities : Page 16

With a few creases and crimps, you can turn regular old aluminum foil into tin foil art!

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

This science fair project idea explores how the shape of a boat affects its density and how much weight it can float.

Kids discover what a homogeneous mixture is by adding sugar to distilled water and identify the various factors affecting solubility.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

This bat craft is a fun project for crafty witches and warlocks. Make a spooky bat craft to hang around your house on Halloween night.

Race to double numbers in this competitive card game. Try one-digit or two-digit numbers, or more!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by counting and spelling your way to a "$1.00" word in this 3rd grade math and reading game.

This science project uses Mohsâ Hardness Test to show kids how to compare the hardness of different types of minerals.

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!

Help your child practice multiplication tables with this mental and physical multitasking game that uses a hula hoop to get into the swing of things.

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

This science fair project idea explores substances that cause a bubble to last longer.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

This footwear-focused activity introduces fractions as part of a set and it's the perfect way to generate excitement about fraction concepts.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

If you are looking for a special way to celebrate dad on his day, help your little one to design a creative letter photo collage.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Challenge your third grader and a few friends to teamwork and laughs with these boisterous indoor Christmas games.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Celebrate Mexican heritage and inspire creativity in your budding artist with this unique arts and crafts activity.