2nd - 4th Grade Activities : Page 40

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Kids paint a still life of a vase of flowers using colors found side by side on the color wheel, just like Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Help your kid organize her collection of earrings and other accessories with a fun embroidery craft!

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Show your fourth grader how to use sequins to create a gorgeous, gold-plated Easter egg.

In this activity, your child gets to peek behind the curtain of puzzle making as they create their very own "Spot the Differences" game!

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Cherries usually burst with flavor, but in this science experiment they burst with osmotic pressure. This science activity will blow your curious kid's mind!

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

Help your child create a gift set perfect for all the tea drinkers in their life.

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.

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

Instead of buying new sunglasses this summer, why not use recycled materials to make some of your own?

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Help your child make some super cute bunny cupcakes that will be the perfect Easter dessert.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

Celebrate spring with a cute cut-out bug button your child can make out of colorful felt and markers!

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

Your child can celebrate St. Patrick's Day by creating this textured clover made from tissue paper.

Transform a simple menu into a work of art! Let your child unleash her inner artist on tonight's menu for a beautiful display that the whole family can enjoy.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

On the next chilly, winter day, invite your fifth grader to make a hand warmer by experimenting with the loaded combination of a few natural ingredients.