2nd Grade Activities : Page 7

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

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.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

No matter the occasion, this flag craft is the perfect way for you child to proudly display her love of the red, white and blue!

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

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

In this science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

With a few creases and crimps, you can turn regular old aluminum foil into tin foil art!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

In this colorful craft, make an enchanting star card for a birthday, holiday, or just for fun with construction paper and foam sheets!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

Hop to this froggy Valentine's Day craft! Your little one will love making this unique Valentine's Day card, a heart-shaped paper frog.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Spark your child's interest in international sporting events by creating a banner of world flags.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.