1st - 5th Grade Activities : Page 75

Learn Halloween fun facts and put them in this cool art project. Make a Halloween fun facts foldable with your child this October.

Wonder why bugs always fly around your lights at night? This experiment determines whether insects are attracted to the heat or the light.

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.

Show your first grader how to create her own octopus out of yarn. This simple, yet fun, project yields an adorable play or cuddle partner.

Make the world's simplest tutu. Don't worry if you aren't good with a needle--putting this no-sew tutu together is as easy as tying your shoe!

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Use recycled wrapping paper and an empty bottle to make this beautiful vase for a great indoor activity when it's cold outside.

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

This nutcracker soldier won't crack any nuts, but he will hide candies. Make a nutcracker soldier with your child this Christmas and have a cracking good time.

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

Experiment with buoyancy to learn how a submarine rises and sinks in this classic science experiment.

Cleaning can be a chore, but not with this sudsy experiment!

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

Make a unique painting while learning about sea life.

How can we make healthy choices and be thoughtful in our actions? In this social emotional learning activity, your child will reflect on making tough choices and the questions to ask in order to help make healthy choices.

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

Your child can personalize these customizable cookies for friends and family as he makes his own fortune cookies from this fortune cookie recipe.

Science fair project that compares the biodiversity of fungi in different ecosystems by identifying species of fungi.

Teach your child how easy it is to make homemade pasta, infused with delicious and nutritious autumn pumpkins.

Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!

This science fair project idea investigates how the height at which a pendulum is released affects the length of time it continues.

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

With this science fair idea, little scientists will gain valuable insights into the physics behind throwing a baseball.