2nd Grade Activities : Page 10

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Transform your kitchen table into a winter wonderland with a cookie and cocoa party that looks freshly dusted with snow.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Help your second grader craft some lovely, personalized Valentine's Day cards--out of kitchen materials!

Check out this simple version of a pairs game that's played all over the world. It's a great way to practice estimating and predicting mathematical outcomes.

Even the birds need to get out of the rain during the winter months. Help your child help nature and fill a lazy afternoon with this easy, cute craft.

Get kids to celebrate Earth Day by designing their very own junk truck.

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

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child the helpful strategy of adding quickly to 10 in this fun and easy-to-make card game!

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Practice measurement using centimeters in this fun math race designed for your second grade student!

Your child will enjoy making this Easter decoration that honors the chicken. After all, chickens are the ones that actually make the Easter eggs!

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

This family photo calendar can be made by your second grader. Make a family photo calendar with your child to celebrate another year together.

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

Your child can get out the acrylic paints and create a colorful paperweight perfect for dad this Father's Day!

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

Make sure your child is prepared for Halloween by having him create a stamp-printing that says: "Trick or treat? Smell my feet!"

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Your child will look forward to lunchtime with this artistic reinterpretation of the same old cold lunch.

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.