2nd Grade Activities

Capture your beach memories—not with a photograph, but with a beach mosaic made from that classic beach souvenir, the shell.

Help your child channel his inner wizard with this crafty activity perfect for imaginative youngsters.

Transform an old chair into a chalkboard canvas! This painting activity is a useful and creative way to add some quirky charm to your existing furniture.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Use pepper and soap to discover some fun facts about the properties of water.

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will play a mindful listening game and create a video or skit that teaches others about mindful listening.

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will hear the story Zoo Zen: A Yoga Story for Kids, learn the benefits of yoga, and create their own yoga sequence to teach someone else.

For this science fair project, kids will learn how to make a lemon battery. They can conduct this classic experiment using readily available materials.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

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

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!

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

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.