2nd - 7th Grade Holidays Activities : Page 2

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Learn how to make a haunted house with this Halloween craft. See how to make a haunted house with a project that is fun for ghosts and ghouls alike.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

Make your very own fortune cookies from paper and share good fortunes with family and friends.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Help your child create her own version of a Moroccan lantern to give her room an Arabian nights feel!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Young scientists develop a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and then revise their hypothesis to find out which common household liquids dissolve candy corn.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

What better way to remember the achievements of past U.S. Presidents than with a game of memory!

Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

An "I Love You" book is a perfect gift for a very special friend on Valentine's Day. Our "I Love You" book shares the love in eight different languages.

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a rainbow card filled with three dimensional four leaf clovers!

Decorate with a banner made from paper, clover shapes and buttons to celebrate spring or St. Patrick's Day!

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

Teach your child about the importance and peacefulness of Ramadan as she gets creative drawing domes, minarets and prayer halls.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Explore geometry, patterns, and history by creating pretty decorative Islamic tile art.