4th and 5th Grade Activities : Page 29

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Show your fourth grader how to use sequins to create a gorgeous, gold-plated Easter egg.

In this activity, your child gets to peek behind the curtain of puzzle making as they create their very own "Spot the Differences" game!

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

Show your love of nature with this pretty vase made with vines. It will be perfect for holding a floral bouquet!

Your fifth grader will love dreaming up special fortunes and embedding them in mouthwatering cupcakes for friends and family.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

This Santa Lucia crown is a beautiful craft for your child during the holiday season. Wear a Santa Lucia crown on St. Lucy's Day, December 13th.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

Create a haunted house from upcycled materials in this lively craft project!

This science fair project idea explores whether a sundial is as accurate as an atomic clock when telling time.

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

On the next chilly, winter day, invite your fifth grader to make a hand warmer by experimenting with the loaded combination of a few natural ingredients.

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

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

Develop your child's hand-eye coordination in a fun and engaging way by challenging her to a game of Drop Catch.

How much does 100 weigh? Play this fun guessing game with your child to commemorate the 100th day of school.

Complete with the drippy, glittery shapes that make icicles so popular, this paper project can be hung everywhere from door frames to tabletops.

In this science fair project, students examine under what conditions individual plants release seeds and how far the seeds are released.

Use this simple and versatile sauce in pasta, sandwiches, or atop baked chicken.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Check out this activity that has your kid create her own Cubist montage. Soon your kid will be well on her way to understanding the vibrant art of Cubism!

Tree rings can tell the age of the tree but also information about the world. This science experiment uses tree stumps to discover new facts.

Are you looking for a fun game that will keep your child on his toes? Try introducing him to Water Tag.

Petanque, a traditional French lawn game, is a wonderful activity to entertain groups of kids and help them learn a little bit about other cultures.

Use recycled wrapping paper and an empty bottle to make this beautiful vase for a great indoor activity when it's cold outside.

Are you sneaky, sneaky? You'll have to be when your play this fun game involving squirt guns and blindfolds that'll test your child's stealth.