5th Grade Activities : Page 18

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

Celebrate Easter with this hands-on activity making your own eggs.

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

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

Being a kid is hard work. Soothe stresses and calm fears with this DIY Zen garden -- all you need is sand, stones and a shoebox.

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

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 goal of this science fair project is to discover the science behind carbonated soft drinks and apply this knowledge to create a new one.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates that light travels in straight lines and experiments with reflecting light.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

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.

This science fair project examines how tsunamis travel by simulating a tsunami moving around an island. You will generate a pretend tsunami in a swimming pool.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

Help your child get organized for the school year ahead and establish some important skills that will help him for years to come!

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

Soil is made up of different layers. How far down do you need to dig to find the soil horizon, or the place where bits of leaves and branches become soil?

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.

What do ants eat? Kids find out by observing a colony of ants in this cool zoology science fair project for 4th grade.

Challenge your child with this exciting 2D to 3D project using a sheet of construction paper, oil pastels, and scissors.

What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.

Using aluminum is a great way to recycle and make some shiny ornaments borrowing from this traditional Mexican art form. Here's an easy kids' activity!

Get your kindergartener involved in the kitchen by making healthy cupcakes loaded with veggies and protein in this fun cooking activity.

Sneak some vitamin-packed greens into your homemade popsicles for a frozen summer treat thatâs both delicious and nutritious

Encourage your child to explore color and its mood-altering effects by creating his own self portrait using only warm or cool colors.

Your fifth grader will love dreaming up special fortunes and embedding them in mouthwatering cupcakes for friends and family.

How good are humans at sound localization? Kids can try this cool science fair project idea to see how good their friends are at judging sound direction.

This homemade keepsake book is a great project for your fifth grader to make for someone special this holiday season!

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your learner.