2nd - 4th Grade Activities : Page 28

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

Here's a fun science experiment that's refreshingly tasty too! Turn regular water into a tasty treat perfect for consuming on a hot day.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Discover how to make fake snot with this cool science fair project idea to learn about polymers, enzymes, and more.

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

Help your child plant a "tea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.

This biodiversity project examines the biodiversity in your own backyard.

Add simple fractions in this fun math card game for second graders. This game is very similar to Blackjack, or 21, but it's entirely kid friendly!

Celebrate the Presidents Day the creative way by constructing toilet paper tube figurines of a couple famous U.S. Presidents!

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Learning to identify prime numbers can be tricky. But this fun card game can make memorizing some basic prime numbers a breeze.

Young scientists develop a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and then revise their hypothesis to find out which common household liquids dissolve candy corn.