Activities : Page 25

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

When it comes to working kids' muscles, nothing beats an obstacle course! Here are some easy ideas for creating your own course at home.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Demonstrate the properties of pressure and surface tension to explain how water can stay inside an upside down glass using cardboard.

Spark your child's interest in international sporting events by creating a banner of world flags.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Your child will boost her gross motor skills as she has fun playing with your easy-to-make and totally safe dart board and dart balls.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

Check out this free high school science fair project to explore the physics of the Coriolis effect with a homemade Foucault Pendulum.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Do heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones? Students learn the answer by watching the effect gravity in a vacuum has on a coin and a feather.

Make a beautiful waxed Easter egg relief drawing for a lesson in this unique art technique.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

Study the impact of environment on seed germination among three materials: soil, paper towel, and cloth. Note when seeds germinate and how well they germinate

The objective of this science fair project idea is to examine light refraction as it passes through liquid crystals.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

Teach your fifth grader an important math concept with this quick and simple activity that shows them how to divide whole numbers by fractions.

Here's a fun way to learn about rhyme in songs and poetry, and to get your middle schooler writing some poetry of his own!

Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter. In this activity, your child can put pick up a paintbrush and create a self-portrait inspired by this renowned artist.

In this science fair project, apply the principles of leverage and force by building six simple machines designed to set weights in motion.