1st - 6th Grade Activities : Page 9

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

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

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

This game is the perfect way to prepare your child for any shopping adventures you may embark upon, all while practicing important math concepts.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

Crayons aren't just good for creating colorful masterpieces -- they're also great for science!

This apple cider recipe makes a perfect drink for a cold winter day. Make our apple cider recipe with your child this holiday season.

In this activity you'll use coffee...to paint! It's a wonderful way to provide your child with a hands-on experience with natural dyes.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

In this project, all you need is a protractor to learn how to use the altitude of Polaris to find latitude on Earth. Polaris is also known as the North Star.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

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

This light bulb science project includes step-by-step instructions for testing the heat from different light bulbs.

In this simple science project, learn about what causes dew and what affects dew formation with a drinking glass, ice, and a soda bottle.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Make this African collar necklace for a lesson in crafting and African culture.

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.

What causes the seasons to change? Kids find out by modeling the earth's tilt using a globe, flashlight and graph paper in this cool science fair project idea.

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

In this fun science project, learn about what happens to cut fruit and experiment with how to stop apples from turning brown.

Get oodles of noodles this year, not for dinner, but to create this funky ornament for the Christmas tree!