2nd - 6th Grade Activities : Page 14

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

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

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

Kids will learn how to make a steam powered rocket boat, also called a putt putt boat or a pop pop boat, in this great science fair project for 4th graders.

Your child can re-purpose any used (and cleaned) can into a colorful container to hold Dad's pens and pencils on his desk!

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

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

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

In this project, all you need is a protractor to learn how to use the altitude of Polaris to find latitude on Earth. Polaris is also known as the North Star.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

This is a great game to help your child learn number concepts in multiplication and division.

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.

This Kool-Aid tie-dye activity is a kid-friendly craft that never gets old. Learn how to make tie-dye shirts using assorted Kool-Aid flavors here.

Create a brush pile to help wintering wildlife stay warm and cozy through the winter.

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

In this pinto bean germination experiment, you'll learn about how fertilizer aids in growing pinto beans into seedlings.

How can we describe the relationship of magnetic field strength vs. distance? Kids will find out with this free science fair project idea.

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

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!