1st - 5th Grade Activities : Page 5

Learn how to make a food pyramid with animals in a a coniferous forest ecosystem around your home.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Kids build a desert food chain, desert food web, and desert food pyramid in this cool science fair project to learn about trophic levels and consumers.

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?

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

Is your little scientist up for a rocky challenge? Let them make their own geode rocks using eggs and epsom salts!

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

In this science fair project, kids will be able to see where germs reside on their hands while gaining insight into the benefits of thorough hand washing.

This science fair project idea builds models of various types of bridges and then determines which bridge design is the strongest.

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

In this project, you'll build a model of the earth, complete with all seven continents and four major oceans.

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

Creating a cloud of bats is a great way for your child to get familiar with the process of folding and cutting. They also make great Halloween decorations!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

Your child will learn a whole alphabet of different jobs while they complete this brain-teaser chart just in time to celebrate Labor Day!

How do the phases of the Moon and gravity cause spring tides and neap tides? Does the Sun play a role in the tides? Figure it out in this fun science project!

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

How does rust form? Kids will learn about the roles oxygen, water, and electrons play in rust chemistry in this cool science fair project idea.

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