1st - 5th Grade Activities : Page 81

Encourage your child to learn about air pressure by helping him devise his own squirt gun with a water bottle.

In this experiment, you'll make a seafloor spreading model to learn more about how plate tectonics work and create mid-ocean ridges.

Celebrate the new year by making a memory book with your child! You'll reinforce time and calendar concepts and you'll get to reminisce about the past year.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

This candy cane holder craft helps your little one make a spot for safekeeping sweet treats. Make a candy cane holder with your child this holiday season.

Forget mass-produced, store bought holiday ornaments. Your fifth grader can usher in the holidays by making his own homemade marbled Christmas balls!

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Say thanks this Thanksgiving by surprising a friend, a teacher or a grandparent with this paper plate turkey which doubles as a festive wall hanging.

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

Hanukkah gelt is a festive treat for the Festival of Lights. Make this Hanukkah gelt even more special with chocolate-dipped apricots.

Create a silhouetted Halloween candle holder with this upcycled activity!

Press pause on your speedy reader's latest adventure with an activity perfect for book lovers.

Invigorate your fourth grader's mind by helping him turn his room into a woven masterpiece using various lengths of material.

Science fair project about work and energy which uses a simple mathematical formula to predict how far a jar will roll down an incline.

Pretty fluttery feather earrings add a light touch to any outfit. Your child will float on air knowing she made the earrings herself.

These decorative vampire bat baskets make for the perfect Halloween party favors, and they're fun for you and your child to make!

Discover flight initiation distance as you play around in the park with this fun bird watching project!

Help your child get creative and collect leaves of various sizes and textures that she can use to make animal art.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

Celebrate the flavors of fall by making this sweet breakfast treat with your child. It beats the stuff from the box any day!

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.

These unique paving block critters let kids unleash their creative side on one of the "squarest" garden supplies in stores.

Help your child create an Easter bunny with this craft that is hopping good fun.

Are you sneaky, sneaky? You'll have to be when your play this fun game involving squirt guns and blindfolds that'll test your child's stealth.

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Make lucky bracelets with lentils and black eyed peas for a New Years art project to remember all year!

These gingerbread cookies can be baked by your third grader. Make a warm batch of gingerbread cookies to bring some extra holiday cheer to your home.

Have a kid who loves to bead, but can't seem to keep them all in one place? Use those loose beads to craft a decorative wind chime.

What causes dilated pupils? Young scientists will find out by applying what they already know about changes in pupil size and making models of the pupil.