2nd Grade Activities : Page 4

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

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

Teach your child about the importance and peacefulness of Ramadan as she gets creative drawing domes, minarets and prayer halls.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

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