Elementary School Activities : Page 9

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

In this art project, eight petals of a flower are painted in watercolor paint using different techniques, colors, and patterns.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Every year at the Passover Seder, the Ten Plagues are mentioned as part of the ritual. Have your kid draw the plagues to help him remember their importance.

Examine whether distilled water, spring water, or regular tap water yield faster plant growth.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

Bring historical figures alive with this fun family activity! Your child will plan a founding fathers feast by researching historical figures.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Practice multiplication facts by playing baseball in this fun, third grade math board game.

Make a rainbow chain for St. Patrick's day to introduce your child to Roy G. Biv.

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Flowers will brighten up anyone's day! Share the joy of spring by making a picture of a vase with fun 3-D flowers that will never wilt.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

In this microwave plant experiment, find out whether microwave radiation will affect radish seed germination. Will it help or hinder the plants' growth?

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will learn about emotions and how they change, just like many parts of nature. Then they will spend time outside, exploring and reflecting on what they have learned.

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?