2nd - 6th Grade Activities : Page 90

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

Invite your kid to decorate your family's ordinary coffee mugs with brightly colored beaded rings!

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Edible holiday gifts are perfect for the foodie in your life. Learn how to make edible holiday gifts with this activity and tutorial.

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

This easy aerodynamics activity is a simple way to introduce kids to the scientific method.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

Not only will you and your kindergartener create a beautiful photo keepsake, you'll also have the chance to spend time together and relive special memories.

This crazy-easy felt sandwich sewing project is a fun way to get your child interested in the art of sewing.

Save the tiny tiles from the iconic board game and reuse them as a statement of scholarly style by making them into a crafty piece of jewelry.

Make flavored popcorn with your kids and explore the tastes of herbs. They'll learn more about their palate as well as how to make perfectly popped popcorn!

This fun activity will have your child creating a Halloween-themed bookmark to use throughout the Halloween season. All they have to do is follow the directions on the legend!

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.

Make a phonics paper egg to help your child build up his reading and writing skills.

Don't throw that Sunday paper away just yet! If you've got a kid who thinks she's "too old" for crafts, introduce her to beautifully simple newspaper flowers.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

To help your child shake the big number blues, here's a handy strategy to make your child a place value pro!

Solfege signs are used to guide students through music that is new to them. Help your musically-inclined child learn to work with this fun system today.

This science fair project idea examines the distance a person travels on an average day and to relate that to an understanding of the size of the Earth.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Your child will hop with delight as he make this delicious, edible bunny out of marshmallows.

Introduce your budding chef to a traditional Irish dish this St. Patrick's Day by making Irish lamb stew, a fantastic one-pot meal the whole family can enjoy.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

This quick and easy pasta dish is loaded with sweet grape tomatoes and vitamin-packed red pepper pesto.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Help your child learn healthy eating habits by transforming every kid's favorite food into a healthy, flavorful after-school snack.