Elementary School Activities : Page 26

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

Take math off the page and into the real world. This simple game gives kindergarten kids hands-on practice with basic addition.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.

Breathe new life into a battered old paperback with this creative book art craft that revolves around reading!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Explore how sound waves are reflected and absorbed by producing echoes. Analyze which locations produce echoes.

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Build a 3d animal cell model with this cool science fair project, which helps kids visualize and understand the function of a cell's parts and organelles.

This science fair project idea researches the different layers of the atmosphere and creates a visual representation of the atmospheric layers.

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

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

This is a great game to help your child learn number concepts in multiplication and division.

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

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Crayons aren't just good for creating colorful masterpieces -- they're also great for science!

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

Try hammering some plants with your kids to teach them a valuable lesson in flower science while making beautiful artwork in the process!

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

These DIY star garlands will add the perfect patriotic touch to your home this 4th of July!

Help your fifth grader honor Black History month and the musical genre of jazz by crafting decorative music notes embellished with jazz musical instruments.