Preschool - 8th Grade Activities : Page 42

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

How does water pressure change with depth? Kids learn how pressure works underwater with this cool and easy demo.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.

Your preschooler will strengthen his fine motor skills by cutting, painting, and drawing as he creates a crafty caterpillar out of an egg carton.

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.

Science fair project which compares the rate of temperature change and the maximum temperature as a result of the angle of light radiation.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

Create a chunky, textured, tactile giraffe collage that is cute enough to pet! This is a great way to recycle old arts and crafts materials.

This homemade snow globe is fun for kids who are excited about the arrival of winter. Kids can complete this snow globe craft quickly and easily.

You've heard all about oil spills, but can they really be that bad? After all, vegetable oil is in almost every yummy baking good from cookies to brownies.

This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Is it amplitude? Weight? Length of string? Kids will discover what factors changing the period of a pendulum depends on in this fun and easy physics experiment.

Use two toilet paper rolls to make a pair of homemade binoculars and let the games begin. Here's how:

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

This science fair project on testing water hardness is a great introduction to practical chemistry. Test and learn the difference between hard and soft water.

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.

Create a bee garden to help shelter bees in your area.

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, they'll also work on fine motor skills.

Learn about landscape painting—and artist Grandma Moses—in this engaging watercolor activity!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Your first grader will love feeding his favorite winged creatures with these tasty Christmas "cookies" for birds!

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

In this experiment, your child will create two compost bins and see if he can determine what attracts fruit flies.

Ever wonder where paint comes from? This recipe works well with preschoolers because of its consistency and its natural nontoxicity.