Elementary School Activities : Page 27

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Help you child learn the colors of the rainbow and paint them in order by making a beautiful rainbow pot.

Hop over to the craft table and make this easy bunny puppet!

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

Now you can have baby chicks around any time of year, with this simple egg carton craft idea.

Kids will discover the meat science behind the meat they eat, and find out how to use safe chemistry to make meat more tender.

Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Celebrate the spirit of Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech with this meaningful and educational art project.

A riff on the classic board game, St. Patrick's Day Snakes and Ladders is a fun game the whole family can enjoy.

This science fair project idea examines whether plants are still able to grow normally if they are turned upside-down.

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

Learn about lateral earthquake motion and its effect on high rise buildings in this simple 4th grade earth science experiment.

this mosaic-inspired activity uses kid-friendly yarn and glue to help your kindergarten kid design her own vibrant, brightly-colored flower.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Science fair project that examines condensation and the conditions needed in order for dew to form.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

Explore emotions through songs and crafts in this social emotional learning activity. In this activity, your child will play an emotions guessing game and create a kaleidoscope of emotions.

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!