1st - 4th Grade Activities : Page 12

Your child can use colorful construction paper to make an easy paper basket to hold some of his special things!

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Follow these easy instructions to make a working sundial with your kid! Find out what other cool things the Aztecs created in this activity.

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

Learn how to make a ping pong ball anemometerâa device used to measure wind speedâin this free science fair project idea.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

In this free science fair project, build a star clock and learn how to tell time on a clear night by observing the big dipper!

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

What causes the seasons to change? Kids find out by modeling the earth's tilt using a globe, flashlight and graph paper in this cool science fair project idea.

Create a world of bugs with your kid! This variation on finger painting is a great project to create after a trip to the zoo or while learning about science.

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.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Honor our 16th president by having your kid assemble his famous stovepipe hat! This Abe Lincoln hat craft is the perfect way to celebrate Presidents Day.

Make your own recycling game that helps teach your child what can and should be recycled.

Did you ever add salt to pasta? Did it help cook the pasta faster? If not, find out in this science fair project idea.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!