Elementary School Activities : Page 16

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

The purpose of this science fair project is to determine which conditions and materials quicken the composting process to make the best compost.

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

How can we describe the relationship of magnetic field strength vs. distance? Kids will find out with this free science fair project idea.

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

Celebrate Mother's Day with this easy, attractive pop-up flower card.

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

Boost your child's listening, verbal and teamwork skills with this unique trust game in which one player guides another through a maze using only words.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Use chemical analysis to identify a variety of mystery powders that look the same but actually have very different properties.

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

Make the sentiment of live flowers last and last by showing your kindergartener how to craft a bouquet that will never wilt--a family photo bouquet, that is.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Challenge your kid to use his knowledge about percentages in this fun game. Just roll the dice and race to calculate the percentage.

Learn the basic structure of a DNA strand, which is the double helix, how genes form together, and the resemblance DNA has to a twisted ladder. Create a model.

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own home!

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.