1st - 7th Grade Activities : Page 54

Create a face of a person or animal on a small terra cotta flower pot and grow herbs or a flowered plant for their hair! As the herbs grow, the hair grows.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

Discover whether the â5-second ruleâ is effective at determining whether food is still safe to eat after being dropped on the ground.

Enchant your garden with flower fairies and let their beauty bloom with this charming fairy craft.

How would you dry your wet clothes if your dryer didn't work? Find out with this fun experiment!

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Your second grader can piece together an adorable--and edible!--wreath for Mom in minutes.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

This easy at-home experiment is a great way to "see" science.

Teach your child about the art of ancient Australia by creating your own handprint art just like Aboriginal artists did thousands of years ago.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

Make lunch or afternoon snack more memorable your preschooler or pre-kindergartener with these sweet snowflakes snacks.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Encourage your child to practice skip counting by turning number patterns into this fun and interactive game of catch.

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!

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.

Looking for an enjoyable evening activity you can do with your kids? Study the stars: help them learn about constellations by making one of their own.

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

Make your own recycling game that helps teach your child what can and should be recycled.

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

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Students explore hot desert plant adaptations in this cool science fair project by observing how these organisms prevent excessive transpiration.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Is your kid all bent out of shape? Try out some trendy dog yoga, or "doga," with your pet dog!

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.