Activities : Page 79

This gooey, squishy recipe will introduce your second grader to the world of measurements without seeming like a lesson or a chore.

Chocolate rice krispie treats get a fun spin in our recipe. Make chocolate rice krispie treats shaped like chocolate kisses for a special Valentine's Day treat.

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

Make your own Matryoshka out of simple craft materials in this easy how-to!

Get this cool science fair idea to explore how arctic tundra animals change their behavior and adapt to survive in long, cold winters.

Create a haunted house from upcycled materials in this lively craft project!

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

Create a face of a person or animal on a small terra cotta flower pot and grow herbs or a flowered plant for their hair! As the herbs grow, the hair grows.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

Your child will love these Easter eggs with a soft touch. There are lots of skills at work here, including fine motor, measuring, and patterning!

Discover whether the â5-second ruleâ is effective at determining whether food is still safe to eat after being dropped on the ground.

Enchant your garden with flower fairies and let their beauty bloom with this charming fairy craft.

How would you dry your wet clothes if your dryer didn't work? Find out with this fun experiment!

Study the effects of wind and temperature on evaporation. Place wet sponges in different environments, check at regular intervals, track time required to dry.

How do crystals form? In this science fair project, students will use three different saturated solutions to see how different minerals form crystals over time.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

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

Your second grader can piece together an adorable--and edible!--wreath for Mom in minutes.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

This easy at-home experiment is a great way to "see" science.

Teach your child about the art of ancient Australia by creating your own handprint art just like Aboriginal artists did thousands of years ago.

In this experiment, you will be making your own paper flashlight by conducting electricty with graphite.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

Is there any correlation between hot tubs and high blood pressure? Kids discover the answer (and its biological basis) in this cool science fair project.

Make lunch or afternoon snack more memorable your preschooler or pre-kindergartener with these sweet snowflakes snacks.