4th and 5th Grade Activities : Page 23

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

Take some inspiration from the past and create some wood block prints with your fourth grader.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Let your child find her place among the politicians, the flyers, the debates and the countless television ads with a slogan and poster of her very own.

Cool down this summer and stay active, too, with a wet clothes relay! 

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

Conduct a mock interview with the President to teach your child about politics, the president and the world she lives in.

Breathe new life into a battered old paperback with this creative book art craft that revolves around reading!

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

Make this mason jar craft that looks like a glowing snowflake and works like a lantern!

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

This science fair project idea investigates the difference in reaction times between boys and girls.

Get this cool science fair idea to explore how arctic tundra animals change their behavior and adapt to survive in long, cold winters.

Your child can twist and turn their way to creating a freestanding wire form! When they're done they can position and display their small statue wherever they want.

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

This St. Patrick's Day, bond with your child over delicious potato pancakes that work for any meal.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

What better way to encourage family bonding and communication than to make a family directory to help everyone keep in touch?

Explore geometry, patterns, and history by creating pretty decorative Islamic tile art.

Science fair project that determines whether landscaping fabric impacts the ability of plants to receive water.

Science fair project which uses coins flips to visually demonstrate the probability of an event and how to express it.

Improve your child's memory, focus, and concentration with this outdoor group memory game. For 4th grade, 5th grade, and middle school age children.

This science fair project idea attempts to train a worm to complete a simple maze in order to find out if worms can learn and remember.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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

Here's a delicious and nutritious dish for St. Patrick's Day: make a NiÃoise-style salad bursting with a rainbow of colors!

In this activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!