Elementary School Activities : Page 51

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Your first grader can create this cute heart puzzle with craft sticks and watercolor paints to challenge her friends!

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

Help your third grader make the Scoop 'N Catch--a great choice for a fun and inexpensive afternoon.

Create a crafty porcupine with your first grader, and use the opportunity to teach your little one about it's ingenious (yet painful!) defense mechanism.

Make a treasure hunt for the kids complete with clues and theyâll be thrilled to find the gelt at the end of their search.

Bring the rich history of Thanksgiving to life with a quirky and sweet paper plate craft.

make the most original Easter eggs on the block with this beading craft to ring in the Spring!

Sweet on someone this Valentine’s Day? Making jewelry with gumball beads is a fun Valentine's Day craft and a great gift that shows someone you care!

Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!

Let your fourth grader contribute to your 4th of July picnic with this creative caddy craft project.

Play this fun matching game with your kindergartener! It's a great way to practice math and number skills with playing cards.

Kids get in lots of letter learning as they play this fun twist on regular tag, which engages their minds as well as their bodies.

Give your daughter a neat project to hold the earrings or other small items that are taking over her dresser top.

Homemade breakfast bars with chocolate and cherries make a tasty to-go breakfast for Valentine's Day. Whip up a batch of homemade breakfast bars with your kid.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

Famous statues of gargoyles protect churches and houses all over Europe, and now your kid can have one of his own, complete with squishy tongue and bouncy arms!

Help your child get organized for the school year ahead and establish some important skills that will help him for years to come!

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

Science fair project that determines whether lettuce that is harvested gradually yields more produce than lettuce that is harvested all at once.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Make cards this May Day celebrating the arrival of springtime.

Would your dog prefer homemade or store-bought food? Raw or cooked? Test your dog's preferred diet in this fun experiment.

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Make a kaleidoscope at home to teach your child about the color spectrum and mirror science.