1st - 6th Grade Activities : Page 41

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

Here's a fun science experiment that's refreshingly tasty too! Turn regular water into a tasty treat perfect for consuming on a hot day.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.

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

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.

Science fair project in which you will attempt to throw a ball the greatest horizontal distance possible by using different angles.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

If you're looking for just the right dessert to serve with your Easter dinner, try your hand at an Easter Bunny cake.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Kids learn about pointillism as they make their own self-portrait in the style of famed American artist Chuck Close.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Instead of heading to the craft store, take a step back in time and restock your art supply with this easy recipe for homemade ink.

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Discover how to make fake snot with this cool science fair project idea to learn about polymers, enzymes, and more.

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Make an elegant Mother's Day card to celebrate the love and work in raising kids.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!