3rd - 8th Grade Holidays Activities

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

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Science fair project which determines whether plants are able to get enough nutrients from different types of garbage.

Your child will learn a whole alphabet of different jobs while they complete this brain-teaser chart just in time to celebrate Labor Day!

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

Celebrate the spirit of Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech with this meaningful and educational art project.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

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.

Create a string of paper jack-o'-lanterns with this simple Halloween paper craft!

In this fun science project your child will get practice following directions and getting messy as they learn all about slime!

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

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

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

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

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.

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Reinforce your child’s foundational math skills while creating small works of seasonal art with this creative Halloween rock painting activity!

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

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

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.