Elementary School Fall Activities : Page 3

Did you know cooking supports your child in learning complex math skills? Reinforce your child's measurement and problem solving skills by whipping up some healthy sweet potatoes for a dinner side dish!

Make a beautiful - and realistic looking - sunflower using sunflower seeds and a paper plate with this fun kindergarten arts and crafts project.

Sweet potatoes lend a creamy texture and peppery seasoning gives a spicy kick in this fall hash recipe.

Celebrate the season with a fall centerpiece art project your child can display for the whole family!

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

Teach your child how easy it is to make homemade pasta, infused with delicious and nutritious autumn pumpkins.

Get started on an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos with this easy edible sugar skull project.

Enjoy some autumn fun, and develop measurement skills with this sweet-smelling fall art project.

Celebrate autumn by making a beautiful pastel art piece with corn as its theme.

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

Make quick sweet and salty walnuts, a delicious addition to fall salads and fruit and nut plates, or a simple afternoon snack.

Most often, a collage is 2-dimensional, but instead of using paper as a base, this project uses an inexpensive pumpkin from the craft store.

Baked rather than fried, these sweet potato fries are a healthier alternative to classic French fries.

Challenge your kid's creativity with a fun fall art project that features you as the collaborator.

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

Use this simple and versatile sauce in pasta, sandwiches, or atop baked chicken.

Crowned with orange cream cheese frosting and studded with chocolate chips, these pumpkin muffins make a delicious fall treat.

This nature craft is a great way for your child to learn about the fall season and make a festive decoration to display in your home.

Chicken souse is a delicious dish native to the Caribbean. Much like American chicken soup, souse contains meat, broth and vegetables but with an island twist.

This fall-themed missing letter activity is a great way to help your child learn the alphabet, build their vocabulary and bolster letter recognition skills.

By selecting a pattern and carefully repeating it on the entire surface of a pumpkin, your child will transform a simple garden vegetable into a work of art.

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

Apple slices can turn brown, but when they are coated with lemon juice the acid keeps the apples fresh. Here's how to help your preschooler experiment:

Make corn kernel necklaces this fall and help build your child's hand-eye coordination along with her fine motor skills.

This turkey hand activity will help your child practice patterns and number recognition, key concepts that she'll encounter throughout your child's academic career.

Enjoy the season of crunchy leaves and crisp harvest scents with a tall glass of pumpkin juice.

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Satisfy your child's love of the game with a paper project starring his favorite pigskin!