High School Activities

Browse through our high school activities, or use the selector below to pick a subject. You'll find many high school activities to keep your child learning on the fly, all year long. From fun holiday activities to subject specific ones there are many high school activities to choose from.

Turn an Old Book into a Memory Box

Turn an Old Book into a Memory Box

Just like movie paintings that move to reveal secret safes, you can make a book that opens to reveal a secret compartment perfect for hiding special things.

Make a Discarded Draft Decoupage Journal

Make a Discarded Draft Decoupage Journal

Your high school grad is sure to appreciate the message of this personal, one of a kind graduation gift as he takes his first tentative steps into adulthood.

Become a Cereal Scrapbooker

Become a Cereal Scrapbooker

When it comes to scrapbooking, you don't have to splurge. Help your teen preserve senior year memories on the cheap by turning cereal boxes into scrapbook pages.

Make a Pop-Up Lantern

Make a Pop-Up Lantern

Candles are a natural centerpiece for a tabletop. Why not add another dimension by covering your candle with this homemade beautiful shade?

Build a Pinhole Camera

Build a Pinhole Camera

This project teaches how simple a camera can be, and how light forms an image on the film. It’s an inexpensive project, a great science experience to learn about optics, and a fun art activity, too!

Living Room Letterpress

Living Room Letterpress

This activity combines learning about traditional printing techniques with a DIY guide for building a small tabletop press and creating linoleum cuts. Your teen will discover how a relatively simple construction project can be used to create gorgeous, unique art prints.

Go on a Geometry Scavenger Hunt

Go on a Geometry Scavenger Hunt

Here's a fun way to help your teen make important connections between geometry in school and geometry in real life, and cross over into the arts at the same time.

Snake Eyes on the SAT

Snake Eyes on the SAT

Dice are a great way to teach students about probability. The different combinations they offer are the perfect grounds for many SAT questions.

Solve Toothpick Puzzles!

Solve Toothpick Puzzles!

Looking for a way to engage your teen while getting some spatial reasoning skills into the mix? Here are some fun toothpick puzzles that are easy to set up at the dinner table with nothing more than a few toothpicks and a coin.

Cartoon Physics

Cartoon Physics

Looking for a way to help your teen explore the fun side of physics? How about a round of Saturday morning cartoons?

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