1st - 5th Grade Activities : Page 6

Tea time is a chance for a lesson in etiquette while she plays. Quality time to read a book and talk about good manners.

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

Certain fruits can change gelatinâs ability to set. In this experiment, kids will discover what happens when gelatin meets pineapple enzyme.

This science fair project idea determines if the color of light affects the growth of plants.

Show your fourth grader how to embrace a green lifestyle and enjoy the outdoors with a homemade, recycled picnic basket.

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

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

This easy and inexpensive paper towel science project introduces kids to important physical concepts like cohesion, adhesion, and capillarity.

Does the temperature of a magnet affect its strength? Learn about the relationship between magnets and temperature with this cool physics science fair project.

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.

In this fun science fair project idea learn about universal solvents and solutes and find out the solubility of several common liquid substances.

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Build your child's math skills with this 2nd-3rd grade activity. Similar to a carnival toss, this egg carton toss game is sure to provide hours of fun.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

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

Why do ants like sugar? Do ants like artificial sweeteners too? Kids find out with this great inquiry-based science fair project.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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

This science fair project idea develops an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong.

Check out this fun and easy science fair project idea on germination of a seed and learn to identify exterior and interior parts of a bean seed.

Do hand soaps and sanitizers prevent the growth of bread mold? If so, why? Kids will find out with this fun and informative science fair project idea.

Do you think you can blow down a sand castle with a mighty wind? Find out which material stands up best to erosion in this erosion experiment.