Rolled Beeswax Candles
Creating beeswax candles is a wonderful and easy activity that will get your child thinking about bees in a whole new light.
Design a Native American Headpiece
Encourage your child to reveal her inner actor! She will delight in dressing up as a Native American this Thanksgiving with her very own extravagant looking headpiece made from everyday office supplies.
Make a Table Runner to Practice Social Studies!
This activity mixes three delicious ingredients: paint, big paper, and family. Plus, you can help your second grader reinforce an important social studies skill: judging things in context of their place and time.
Revive French Surrealism: Play Exquisite Corpse!
Play Exquisite Corpse with your high schooler to give her a taste of French Surrealism while working collaboratively to create unique and funky pieces of art!
Geography Game with Dr. Seuss!
Kids can take turns helping a balloon stay up, up, up in the air while imagining all the places they'll go in this energetic geography game inspired by Dr. Seuss.
Peanut Game
Who's got the peanut? Kids can use their observational skills as they try to figure out who has the peanut in this fun game.
Engage Your 5th Grade Traveler!
You've been talking about this vacation for years. You've saved the money and hoarded your days off from work. Your fifth grader is even, finally, old enough to savor the sights. It's a dream! There's just one teeny problem: it's about five hundred miles in the car, each way.
Paint a Ceiling with Michelangelo
Your child can experience what it was like for Michelangelo while he was painting his masterpiece with the use of the kitchen table â and some imagination!
Host a Royal Ball!
Host a royal ball for your prince or princess to practice manners that even the queen will approve of!
Tin Can Lanterns
Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.
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