Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

2nd graders with some weaving experience can turn a gallon milk jug and plastic grocery bags into a functional basket.

Play this daily money game with your 2nd grade child to help his math skills.

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Light up the sky with this lotus lantern, a perfect way to explore Buddha Day.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

Capture your beach memories—not with a photograph, but with a beach mosaic made from that classic beach souvenir, the shell.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

Do different types of oil mix or stack? Find out in this science fair project idea!

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

It's important to be able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the perfect way to practice.