1st - 4th Grade Activities : Page 71

With help, your fifth grader can sew her own version of this pin cushion currently available at many craft fairs.

Create a beautiful piece of pottery by hand using a few simple ingredients, and learn about the Native American Acoma tribe while doing it!

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

You can try this simple activity with your third grader to get him thinking about the real world math you use everyday.

Use familiar household items and decorations to turn estimation into a fun game!

This study evaluates if electronic devices commonly found in most households emit radiation, and if they do, how much?

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

This fun activity will have your child creating a Halloween-themed bookmark to use throughout the Halloween season. All they have to do is follow the directions on the legend!

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

This goofy pasta clown sculpture will help your child develop his small muscle skills and think creatively while decking it out with a colorful circus outfit.

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

Is it amplitude? Weight? Length of string? Kids will discover what factors changing the period of a pendulum depends on in this fun and easy physics experiment.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Hiding protein-rich quinoa and a variety of fresh vegetables, these meatballs are the perfect answer to kid food woes.

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Banish your third grader's rainy day boredom by guiding his play group through a collaborative art project that leads up to the unveiling of a crazy creature!

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

Help your child make some super cute bunny cupcakes that will be the perfect Easter dessert.

This science fair project idea explores whether white light can be separated into different colors.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Help your kid organize her collection of earrings and other accessories with a fun embroidery craft!

Your child will rule his kingdom in style with this regal Pharaoh's head cloth, called a "nemes."

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with a colorful rainbow, a pot of gold and an introduction to printmaking.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

This science project teaches students to classify different shapes of leaves.

You and your fourth grader can pay homage to the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, Canada, by baking up a batch of maple leaf pancakes!