5th Grade Holidays Activities : Page 4

Make a creative Father's Day art card to celebrate your family's beloved guy!

Help your fourth grade scientist practice measurement, and make a scrumptious, healthy summer cheesecake in the process!

Let your fourth grader contribute to your 4th of July picnic with this creative caddy craft project.

Introduce your fifth grader (and friends) to a unique Jewish tradition by paying homage to the Maccabiah games by engaging them in their own makeshift games!

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

Celebrate the holidays by making sufganiyot, or fried jelly donuts. This Hanukkah recipe is great for kids learning about the Festival of Lights.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

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

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

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

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

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Create a dramatic, elegant line drawing of a pumpkin in this white-on-black Halloween art project. 

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

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

Nothing says Father's Day like a brand new necktie. Much tastier than fabric ties, these sweet baked versions are the perfect gift for Dad.

Spider cupcakes are creepy-crawly treats that are perfect for Halloween. These spider cupcakes make for a great Halloween party treat.

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.

One thing the Christmas season is known for making is yummy treats! Cookies, pies, fudges, and cakes are common desserts during Christmas time. If you want to choose a healthier option this holiday season, create a Christmas tree with fruit. It will be a

Turn all those broken bits of plates, random buttons, or other odds and ends into a lovely flower pot for Mom on Mother's Day.

Romantic idioms are colorful and sometimes confusing phrases about love. Make a book of romantic idioms with this activity.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

In this inspiring activity, children create and perform their very own Reader’s Theater about helping the planet!

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

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

Let your child show off his culinary prowess as he whips up this nutritious and delicious salmon recipe!

Create cake pops in shaped like eyeballs in this extra sweet, gross-out Halloween baking activity!

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

Help your child honor her grandpa this Father's Day by creating an original photo essay just for him.