1st - 5th Grade Measurement Activities : Page 3

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Homemade Halloween treats make great party foods for an All Hallow's Eve get together. These four homemade Halloween treats are scary-good.

This fun science project helps to investigate how much water can a plant take up and release in a certain period of time through the process of transpiration.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Kids will learn about insulation, heat conduction, and the economic benefits of energy efficient windows in this cool science fair project.

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

Help your curious kid cut through the clutter and collect the facts with a simple and fun science foldable.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

Science fair project that compares the freezing temperature of salt water and freshwater in order to learn about supercooling and condensation nuclei.

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

Time is an abstract concept that's difficult to grasp. But waiting for the turkey to come out of the oven on Thanksgiving is a concretely yummy experience.