4th and 5th Grade Activities : Page 34

Looking for a way to stay cool in the pool? Check out Elbow Tag, a simple and easy twist on the classic game tag.

Your fourth grader will hone his fine motor skills and learn to follow directions as he creates this recycled angel tree topper out of an ordinary soda bottle!

Sweet on someone this Valentine’s Day? Making jewelry with gumball beads is a fun Valentine's Day craft and a great gift that shows someone you care!

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

Have your child make a holiday scarf with inexpensive materials, no sewing required!

Create a beautiful piece of pottery by hand using a few simple ingredients, and learn about the Native American Acoma tribe while doing it!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

If your kid looks like she needs a break from homework or something to work on during commercials, show her how to make a necklace of paper beads!

A lemonade stand is a great opportunity for your kids to work on their money skills and donate some hard earned money to charity.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

This Santa puppet brings a little extra cheer to your Christmas celebration. Make a Santa puppet with your child this holiday season.

Using only straight-line sewing, your fourth can create a nifty felt pencil case perfect for his busy life.

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

This bottle cap jewelry project is a fun way to add personal style to your pre-teen's wardrobe without breaking the bank or battling mall crowds.

Help your child create her very own invention just like Leonardo da Vinci as she develops her critical thinking skills and lets her imagination soar!

Get inspired by the great outdoors and help your child make a quirky jewelry tree out of chopsticks!

Science fair project which measures the shadow cast by a meter stick at various times in order to predict the circumference of the earth.

Your child can make a sweet and savory spinach strawberry salad; two ingredients that come together for a light and fresh summer dish!

This science fair project idea recreates the movement of planetary bodies in order to learn why they sometimes appear to move backwards.

Discover a way to take old denim out of your child's closet without removing it from her life with this beautiful recycled craft.

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

Science fair project that determines whether mass and weight are the same or different.

This easy indoor activity teaches kids how to mix kitchen ingredients into watercolor paints, while giving a crash course in color-combining.

Introduce your fifth grader to the Kinara, part of the Kwanzaa tradition, by playing this fast-paced, two player game!

In this cool experiment, learn how to find specific gravity of minerals using liquids of different densities to see which substances and items sink and float.