1st - 5th Grade Activities : Page 13

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

In celebration of National Peace Day on September 21st, your child can create a colorful peace collage, using magazine clippings and colorful pieces of paper.

An hour glass, also known as a sand clock, keeps time. In this activity, your child will make her own sand clock and measure the time it keeps.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

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 fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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

Kids will learn how to measure the viscosity of liquids by making their own homemade viscometer in this great science fair project idea.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Celebrate Earth Day by making colorful animal sculptures using recycled materials from around the house in this 3rd grade arts and crafts activity.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

Students will investigate the thermal conductivity of metals by learning how to measure thermal conductivity with this fun and easy science fair project idea.

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

The purpose of this science fair project is to build a basic radio.

Rid your family of that pile of old Christmas cards once and for all! Show your child how to create a nifty 8-sided ornament using his favorite holiday images.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

Every time a sound is produced it emits a sound wave. This experiment demonstrates how sound travels, using nothing more than a spoon and a string!

Milk is made of water and fat; but how can you separate the two? Find out in this color changing milk experiment.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

This science fair project idea investigates the hardness property of minerals.

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

This no-sew Christmas stocking helps you celebrate the holiday, without the added fuss or cost. Make a no-sew Christmas stocking this holiday season.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!