Elementary School Activities : Page 38

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Hanukkah stamps help you decorate anything from cards to gifts to wrapping paper. Make your own Hanukkah stamps out of potatoes.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

Your child will be delighted to create a sweet painting in the style of pop artist Wayne Thiebaud!

What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Introduce decimals and place value with this fun math card game for fourth grade students.

Make learning how to calculate surface area easy and fun using this simple hands-on approach.

Your child will look forward to lunchtime with this artistic reinterpretation of the same old cold lunch.

Encourage your child to eat nutritiously by having them build this delicious summer fruit cone!

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

In this version of the classic card game, students will gain an understanding of equivalents and may not even realize it's a math review!

A recycled egg carton and a big imagination is all it takes for these flowers to bloom!

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

In Japan, ozoni is one of the main dishes eaten on New Year's Day. Here's how to make this delicious traditional dish with your child.

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

Make a candy wrapper collage with your leftover candy wrappers! This candy wrapper collage is a cool, upcycled post-Halloween craft project.