Elementary School Activities : Page 18

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Introduce shapes to art projects with this fun Valentine-themed craft.

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

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

Kids will learn how to make a steam powered rocket boat, also called a putt putt boat or a pop pop boat, in this great science fair project for 4th graders.

Your child can re-purpose any used (and cleaned) can into a colorful container to hold Dad's pens and pencils on his desk!

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Use fun and fuzzy pipe cleaners to help your child learn how to form important letters that make up the words that are the building blocks of phonics.

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

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

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

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

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Explore African culture by helping your child make his very own djembe drum! Help your child explore music and rhythm as he celebrates Black History Month.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

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

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.