Preschool - 8th Grade Activities : Page 26

Demonstrate the properties of pressure and surface tension to explain how water can stay inside an upside down glass using cardboard.

Make learning how to calculate surface area easy and fun using this simple hands-on approach.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Kids make a cute pipe cleaner bumble bee craft and learn a few interesting bee facts along the way in this spring-themed arts and crafts activity.

Jump into Japanese culture with your child by making your own calligraphy scroll. Try your hand at painting kanji on paper just like Zen masters of old!

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

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

Young physicists will wrestle with a discrepant event: the Hammer Ruler Trick. They'll make some inferences about torque, balance, and center of gravity.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Discover whether a metal will expand under hot water.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Find out whether matte or shiny nail polish lasts longer.

Simon Says is a classic outdoor game that young children love. Promote your child's development and improve listening skills by playing the game in a new way.

Learn to recognize symmetry by playing this game! The more you play, the better you'll get at recognizing this special characteristic many playing cards have.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Create an outer space painting with chalk, water and black paper in this art project that explores the solar system.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills