4th Grade Activities : Page 16

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

Spiders may be creepy, crawly and sometimes frightening, but not this little fella. He's fun to make and sure will cause a lot of giggling!

Demonstrate how static electricity can cause an object to move. It also examines just how an object affected by static electricity will move.

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

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Show your child how to paint in true Georgia O'Keeffe style. He'll enjoy painting art inspired by a master, and boost his math skills, too.

This activity teaches your third grader how to make a paper cut-out still life, in true Matisse-style.

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

This art exercise is great way to help kids learn how to see just like a professional painter, while experimenting and having fun with monochromatic color!

Honor dad's fatherly achievements with a handmade plaque for a job well done!

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

This science fair project idea highlights decomposition rates by comparing how long it takes an item to decompose in a compost pile vs. a landfill.

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.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Try hammering some plants with your kids to teach them a valuable lesson in flower science while making beautiful artwork in the process!

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Science fair project that identifies the differences between soils from different environments and attempts to figure out why those differences exist.

Decorate with a banner made from paper, clover shapes and buttons to celebrate spring or St. Patrick's Day!

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Math Baseball is a fun and competitive way to review new math concepts and simple computations.

Teach your child golf without the clubs! Introduce her to Pebble Golf, a fun beach game and a great way to develop her depth perception.

Have a young architect or designer on your hands? Here's an easy activity for him to learn the basics of landscape and architecture while having fun!

This science project has students collect wood samples and invent new uses for different types of wood based on its properties.

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.

Here's a tasty summer holiday treat: oatmeal chocolate chip cookie sandwiches filled with cinnamon ice cream.

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