2nd - 4th Grade Activities : Page 15

Your child will have fun creating an Earth Day Plate that he can eat off as often as he likes!

Demonstrate the properties of pressure and surface tension to explain how water can stay inside an upside down glass using cardboard.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Jump into Japanese culture with your child by making your own calligraphy scroll. Try your hand at painting kanji on paper just like Zen masters of old!

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

Discover whether a metal will expand under hot water.

Learn to recognize symmetry by playing this game! The more you play, the better you'll get at recognizing this special characteristic many playing cards have.

Create an outer space painting with chalk, water and black paper in this art project that explores the solar system.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Transform a brown paper grocery bag into a hat in this arts and crafts activity!

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

Are you looking for an easy-to-play, fun game? Try Cat and Mouse. All you need is a large bed sheet or tablecloth, a "cat" and a "mouse", and you're all set.

This science fair project idea compares biodiversity between drops of water.

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

Outfit a pair of dark sunglasses with sneaky mirrors for eyes in the back of your head.

Making these fabulous cupcake liner flowers is a great way to introduce your child to relief artwork and patterns.

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

This science experiment tests if dog saliva can really help heal wounds.

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.