4th - 7th Grade Activities : Page 26

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

Your child can create a vibrant and dazzling array of flowers by blending and scraping into paint, and then creating a collage.

Let your aspiring poet use book titles to create a funky and visually-appealing masterpiece!

Find out whether matte or shiny nail polish lasts longer.

Teach your child how easy it is to make homemade pasta, infused with delicious and nutritious autumn pumpkins.

This project determines the age of a tree using a growth factor chart instead of cutting the tree down to count the rings in its base.

In this unique 5th grade arts and crafts project, your budding artist can imitate ancient rock art by creating his own petroglyphs on sandpaper with crayons.

Press pause on your speedy reader's latest adventure with an activity perfect for book lovers.

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

This activity encourages self-expression. When your child is finished she will have created a personalized pin to wear or give as a gift!

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.

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

Science fair project that examines how yeast grows, and which conditions allow for optimal growth. What types of nutrients does yeast prefer?

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

Chocolate dipped candy canes make an elegant and delicious Christmas treat that your fifth grader can make. Make chocolate dipped candy canes with your child.

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.

Make physical activity fun with this 4th-5th grade fitness game that's a twist on classic Tic-Tac-Toe.

Make some beautiful and unique candles to light your home.

Introduce your fourth grader to the deliciousness that can come out of the kitchen by helping him make these sugary traditional Mexican cookies, or biscochitos.

Celebrate autumn with a seasonal bash. Welcome the fall with a festive party for your little one and her friends, full of crafts, snacks and fun games.

Create a chunky, textured, tactile giraffe collage that is cute enough to pet! This is a great way to recycle old arts and crafts materials.

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Ask your fourth grader to jazz up the family kitchen by creating this adorable clothespin giraffe to sit on the counter and hold recipe cards.

Here's a guide to help you design a challenging pool obstacle course for your elementary school children with ordinary pool toys and household objects.

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Inspired by Charles Kaufman's crushed can art, this activity lets kids make their own unique works of art using, you guessed it, crushed cans and paint!

The objective of this science fair project is to set up a compost bin to convert food scraps and organic waste.

Young artists will combine two animals into one in this imaginative art-project-slash-game!