Elementary School Activities : Page 114

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

This butterfly costume comes together in under an hour and is perfect for your little trick-or-treater. Make this butterfly costume for Halloween or play time.

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

What is mulch? Kids will provide soil with a wet blanket of mulch and see if that helps keep drought-stricken soil damp.

This gumbo recipe is a yummy way to celebrate Black History Month, and get a little practice in measurement.

Try a fun Mother's Day game for moms and kids to play together!

Help your child to invent her own chore-helper to help her put that growing imagination to good use!

Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Got a fussy eater on your hands? Here's a great way to make fruit appear more appealing, and make eating it a lot more fun, too!

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.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Why pay for expensive plates when you can paint original designs on your own dishes? This fun activity will bring out your kid's creative side.

This watercolor landscape creates the background for the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood by using spooky silhouettes for the characters.

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

Understanding how to make positive choices about where to put our money and time is a valuable lesson us all! Children strengthen their responsible decision-making skills by learning about consumerism and its effects on society and the environment.

This fragrant drawer sachet keeps clothes smelling sweet, and makes for the perfect gift.

In this activity, your child will interview a caring adult or friend to ask them when they have seen them at their best.

Make a paper plate puppet that'll help your child imagine what it's like to be in a performance of the dragon dance.

Celebrate Veterans Day or Memorial Day by creating some patriotic paper star charms to honor those who have served in the military.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

This Santa Lucia crown is a beautiful craft for your child during the holiday season. Wear a Santa Lucia crown on St. Lucy's Day, December 13th.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Do this fun art project to brighten up your home with an easy-to-make stained glass window drawing!

Rainy day? Stuck inside? Here's an arts and crafts pasta project to enjoy with your kindergartener that helps her with math patterns too.

Put some spring back in the season and teach your child a little about plants with this fun paper flower art project!

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Have your child create a project that combines the beauty of Japanese cherry blossoms with the eco-friendly fun of a recycled craft.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

What's my number? Go ahead and guess! This logic game focuses on number sense that suits all ability levels, as players' questions can be simple or complex.