5th Grade Holidays Activities : Page 2

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your child's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

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

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

If you are looking for a special way to celebrate dad on his day, help your little one to design a creative letter photo collage.

Help your fifth grader create an art card that celebrates the enduring values of Passover.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

Make your very own fortune cookies from paper and share good fortunes with family and friends.

If you're looking for just the right dessert to serve with your Easter dinner, try your hand at an Easter Bunny cake.

Make an elegant Mother's Day card to celebrate the love and work in raising kids.

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Encourage your child to help make dinner special this holiday season! If your child is loves to help in the kitchen, this is a great activity. They will build mini-penguins to enjoy while waiting for dinner!

Create a string of paper jack-o'-lanterns with this simple Halloween paper craft!

What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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

What better way to encourage family bonding and communication than to make a family directory to help everyone keep in touch?

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.