2nd - 6th Grade Activities : Page 57

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

Make your own picture frame! Show your fourth grader how to construct the an adorable, decorative picture frame for her favorite photo.

This science project has students collect wood samples and invent new uses for different types of wood based on its properties.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

This science project explores the concept of being opaque or clear. Can you make something clear opaque? Or something opaque clear?

In this activity, your child will explore the difference between boredom and curiosity in building greater attentiveness and happiness in the present moment.

Celebrate winter with some unique snowman decor. In this activity your kid will create a self-standing sculpture that'll look great on a table or in a window.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.

This stamp-making fabric craft will get you in the mood for a picnic and get your child excited about fruit.

Make over an old shirt that's destined for the thrift shop with this heart cut-out craft for Valentine's Day.

When you're studying the Mayflower, numbers can be an important part of the history...and a great chance to practice elementary math!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Channel the artistic spirit of Romare Bearden by making a mixed media collage to express different moods.

Take a look at forensic science with your child. She'll learn how to take a shoe impression, just like the detectives do!

mix and match your own creative outfits while also predicting clothing combinations -- style and statistics practice all in one!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen his ability to work with and interpret data in various forms.

This science fair project idea examines whether adding gelatin causes a solid to have a higher melting point and/or melt slower.

Turn your leftover cranberry dressing into a sweet, rich bread with this holiday recipe.

Your child can transform plain yogurt into a healthy and tasty treat the whole family will love! She'll learn more about baking as well as how yogurt is made.

Make a homemade doll out of recycled materials, similar to dolls made by pioneer children.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Create a face of a person or animal on a small terra cotta flower pot and grow herbs or a flowered plant for their hair! As the herbs grow, the hair grows.

Check out this fun and easy-to-play guessing game that will build your child's geometry vocabulary.

Save money by having your tween rock these homemade jeggings, a good craft for a lazy afternoon.

Give your child a chance to feel like important airport personnel and learn a whole host of skills while he's at it!