2nd - 7th Grade Activities : Page 17

This science fair project examines which fruits and/or vegetables will ripen prematurely when placed with ripe apples.

This prime number game is the perfect way to get to know prime numbers. Deal the cards and flip them over. When players a prime number they call out, "Prime!"

This science fair project focuses on the use of a conductivity device that will determine if a substance dissolved in water can or cannot conduct electricity.

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

Your child will boost her gross motor skills as she has fun playing with your easy-to-make and totally safe dart board and dart balls.

This nature craft is a great way for your child to learn about the fall season and make a festive decoration to display in your home.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Filling out forms can be a great learning experience for kids. Here's how to give your child some FORMal training.

Teach your kid a fun mathematical magic trick! All you'll need is a deck of cards and basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills.

Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

If your science savy third grader is up for a challenge, let her bend light with a casserole dish!

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

This science fair project idea studies which brand of wintergreen candy produces the most sparks in the dark.

This flower necklace will have your child practicing patterns, repetition and tracing. Plus, it's so colorful and cute that it makes the perfect gift.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

This science fair project demonstrates the principles of reflection through simple experiments involving mirrors and light.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!