1st - 8th Grade Activities : Page 48

Here's an entertaining ball game filled with spins, jumps, and claps to keep your child having fun while you get a moment to yourself.

In this simple circular motion experiment, you'll observe tangential velocity and learn about how acceleration and centripetal force affect an object.

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

Protozoa and ciliate and amoeba, oh my! The objective of this science fair project is for students to use a microscope and identify microscopic life.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

Help your second grader craft some lovely, personalized Valentine's Day cards--out of kitchen materials!

Here, kids can make edible collages out of cookies and candy. Colorful, creative, and delicious, they make great gifts for sweet-toothed family and friends.

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

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.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Give your child a chance to feel like important airport personnel and learn a whole host of skills while he's at it!

How much does 100 weigh? Play this fun guessing game with your child to commemorate the 100th day of school.

Play tic-tac-toe and help your kid memorize multiplication facts!

Discover which fabrics shrink the most in the wash and why.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

If your mom likes flowers, make her a sweet gift that she'll treasure with this fun craft, a pretty Pressed Flowers Card!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Holiday greeting cards let your child express his holiday cheer and have fun crafting. Make a set of holiday greeting cards with your kid this holiday season.

For kids who prefer to do homework flopped on a rug, this practical caddy can make all the difference!

This year on Mother's Day, here's a gift that builds vocabulary while bringing a smile to Mom's face!

This recycled craft makes a great addition to the dress-up box and is a two-in-one activity and party favor for princess-themed birthday parties.

Help your child make her very own clock with a recycled, thrift store find to give as a gift or keep for yourself!

Make cards this May Day celebrating the arrival of springtime.

This decimal game is a great way to help your child get familiar with how decimal values work.

In this arts and crafts activity, you can make fun bracelets using just a handful of buttons and some elastic cord. And it's a counting game, too!

Your fifth grader will love dreaming up special fortunes and embedding them in mouthwatering cupcakes for friends and family.

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.