1st - 8th Grade Activities : Page 74

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

Who wants to take a boring paper bag to school -- just to throw away as soon as the bell rings -- when you can create a reusable lunch bag out of fleece?

A lemonade stand is a great opportunity for your kids to work on their money skills and donate some hard earned money to charity.

Here's how to create an easy travel checkers board that you are your child can enjoy together using simple materials.

Picnic getting boring? Here's a fun game that gets the kids moving around, and doing a little addition while they're at it.

Practice measurement using centimeters in this fun math race designed for your second grade student!

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Use adorable animal photos from books or magazines to make these simple valentines that can be given to classmates or friends.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

This Santa puppet brings a little extra cheer to your Christmas celebration. Make a Santa puppet with your child this holiday season.

Using only straight-line sewing, your fourth can create a nifty felt pencil case perfect for his busy life.

Learn an ancient craft with this introduction to weaving. A great tie-in for kids learning about ancient cultures.

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

In this activity, young learners will make a balance using a plastic hanger and weigh a variety of small objects using candy corn.

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

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

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!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

This stocking craft will get your child to make a fun and textured collage for Christmas. Make this stocking craft with your child this holiday season.

This bottle cap jewelry project is a fun way to add personal style to your pre-teen's wardrobe without breaking the bank or battling mall crowds.

Make this delicious Hollywood craft for kids that looks like film reels for the perfect Oscar party dessert or movie star meal!

Help your child create her very own invention just like Leonardo da Vinci as she develops her critical thinking skills and lets her imagination soar!

Bring a little Caribbean flavor and cultural knowledge to the table with this delicious conch salad, a local Bahamian dish.

In this activity, kids learn a little about Japanese culture by making their own windsock in the shape of a koi fish.

Get inspired by the great outdoors and help your child make a quirky jewelry tree out of chopsticks!

Give mom a thoughtful gift this Mother's Day by making a photo collage of her life! This is a great way for your child to practice some basic math skills too!

Science fair project which measures the shadow cast by a meter stick at various times in order to predict the circumference of the earth.