3rd and 4th Grade Activities : Page 30

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Being present is essential for learning, so help your child become more aware of their body and surroundings through an activity called "mindful walking."

Learn to make homemade ketchup with your child and experiment with spices and flavors!

Make this easy recipe for Halloween, featuring white chocolate and pretzels, for a crispy, creepy treat!

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

This science experiment tests if dog saliva can really help heal wounds.

This surprisingly good glue recipe comes from common kitchen items.

Flip your way into the fall season with this easy and delicious pumpkin pancake recipe that your child can make on weekend mornings!

Time is an abstract concept that's difficult to grasp. But waiting for the turkey to come out of the oven on Thanksgiving is a concretely yummy experience.

Make ancient Egypt come alive by showing kids how to make their own mini sarcophagus out of a shoe box.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your child put together his own "Back to School" scrapbook.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Reuse old Christmas cards by showing your fourth grader how to weave strips of them together to create new and unique woven holiday cards!

Defend your cards in this multiplication math game! Your kid will enjoy using strategy to build equations and win points in this activity.

For some good "green" fun, pull out your blender. A spinach smoothie?! You better believe it! And kids will not only slurp it up, they"ll beg for seconds.

Your child will learn science and make a fun new malleable toy with this balloon sandbag science experiment.

Make a one-of-a-kind necklace this holiday season with this Christmas bead craft that will warm the heart of whoever receives it!

Explore the chemistry of latex polymers with this outrageous, hilarious science activity.

Introduce decimals and place value with this fun math card game for fourth grade students.

What do a pool, a raft and a golf club have in common? They are all integral ingredients in the fun game of Aqua Golf, a great activity for kids of all ages.

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

This science fair project on testing water hardness is a great introduction to practical chemistry. Test and learn the difference between hard and soft water.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Kids will make predictions about cricket behavior by conducting this fun and easy experiment which simulates different environments for crickets.

Don't toss out those old tortillas! Your child can use them to create her own tortilla chips in any flavor she can imagine.

Your child will create their very own filigree drawing; twirling, or coiling small strips of lightweight paper around toothpicks and gently gluing them down.

This year for Valentine's Day, you and your child can bake up a batch of classic red velvet cupcakes and learn more about the history of this vintage treat.

For kids who prefer to do homework flopped on a rug, this practical caddy can make all the difference!

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!