2nd - 5th Grade Activities : Page 11

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

In this activity you'll use coffee...to paint! It's a wonderful way to provide your child with a hands-on experience with natural dyes.

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

This science fair project idea demonstrates that light travels in straight lines and experiments with reflecting light.

Explore the craters, maria, and highlands on the surface of the Moon! In this fun science project you'll create a 3-D model of the moon using paper mache.

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

Your child can cut and fold her way to lots of lovely spring tulips through the art of origami!

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

In this project students experiment with making music using only glasses of water.

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

The moon doesn't produce its own light, so why can we see it shining in the sky? Learn about reflection and planetshine in this fun and easy science project!

Boost your child's listening, verbal and teamwork skills with this unique trust game in which one player guides another through a maze using only words.

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

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

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

This science fair project idea investigates the hardness property of minerals.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

Make this African collar necklace for a lesson in crafting and African culture.

Celebrate Earth Day by making a poster that encourages people not to litter.

Brighten up everyone's day with this circular rainbow plate perfect for celebrating spring or St. Patrick's Day.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

In this CD hovercraft science project, students will construct their own DIY hovercraft.