5th - 7th Grade Activities : Page 27

Show your child how to concoct a simple duo of household ingredients that changes color as acids and bases are added!

Enlist your fifth grader's help in making homemade mistletoe. Every time someone passes under it, he will express appreciation to another family member!

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen his ability to work with and interpret data in various forms.

Sure, angles can be confusing. Here's a fun activity to brush up your child's knowledge of these geometry essentials.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

Let these cute shamrock earrings bring the luck of the Irish to your fifth grader's ears!

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

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

If it's Easter, it must be time for egg hunts. But we have to admit, most kids would rather take a bite out of a yummy cupcake than a hard-boiled egg.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

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

Help your student memorize the vocabulary needed to excel in geometry. This fun Tic-Tac-Toe game focuses on terms used when working with circles.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Cook Halloween pasta on All Hallows' Eve. This green pasta with toothy almonds is a super scary and tasty dinner for trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.

Be an inspector detective for a day in this fun mystery game that puts your child's powers of observation to the test. Perfect for a party or group gathering.

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

Has your junior chef moved beyond chicken nuggets and mac and cheese? Challenge him to create his own brand of infused olive oil.

Wake up and create a fun, healthy snowman with your learner! As a family, create a snowman on your plate with yogurt, add some snowman accessories, and design a snowy environment.

Understanding how to make positive choices about where to put our money and time is a valuable lesson us all! Children strengthen their responsible decision-making skills by learning about consumerism and its effects on society and the environment.

Taking a moment to pause, feel our breath, and to notice the things around us can support a heightened sense of focus and can bring kind attention to the present moment and to tasks at-hand. In this activity, your child will practice the STOP method and

This refreshing salad is tasty and chock full of fresh veggies! Your child will hone her slicing skills as she makes this delicious dish.

Transform that big batch of stuffing into a new dish to add some zest to your dinner with this leftover stuffing recipe.

Turn snack time into a healthy ho-ho-holiday activity! Make a face that looks like a cartoon Santa using fruits. It will be a fun activity that will get your family in the holiday spirit, and spice up your snack time with healthy treats.

This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.

This science fair project idea measures the growth of bread dough and finds out how long it takes for the dough to stop rising.

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Instead of loading up on mayonnaise based potato salad, your child can whip up something healthier: German potato salad!

Science fair project which determines whether people are more likely to follow rules if they are easy to understand.

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

For some good "green" fun, pull out your blender. A spinach smoothie?! You better believe it! And kids will not only slurp it up, they"ll beg for seconds.