2nd and 3rd Grade Activities : Page 23

Construct a card castle fit for a king! Treat your royal "face" cards (the kings, queens, and jacks) to the cool castle they deserve.

Here's an entertaining ball game filled with spins, jumps, and claps to keep your child having fun while you get a moment to yourself.

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

Make a knight using metal washers, screws, bolts and aluminum foil, creating the most resistant armor anyone has ever seen.

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

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

This science fair project idea investigates how the height at which a pendulum is released affects the length of time it continues.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Explore griffins, dragons, and other medieval mythical beasts through sculpture by making your own bas relief beast out of modeling clay.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

A woven heart makes a thoughtful and heartfelt gift for a special friend or family member on Valentine's Day. Make a woven heart with your young crafter.

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

These delicious Easter Basket Cupcakes are a simple, creative holiday treat. These cupcakes sit in waffle bowls with festive coconut grass and jellybean eggs.

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

Make a Duct Tape Wallet: This activity provides kids great practice in following directions and makes for a fun homemade gift.

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

Expand on your childâs time-telling skills by helping him learn how an analog clock and a digital clock correspond.

This science fair project idea explores how enzyme inhibitors, active sites, non-competitive enzyme inhibitors, and substrates work.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Crystals are a very special structure. In this third grade activity, your child will learn how to grow salt crystals.

Here's a tasty summer holiday treat: oatmeal chocolate chip cookie sandwiches filled with cinnamon ice cream.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Encourage your child to memorize the items on the Seder plate and what they symbolize with this artsy activity.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!