2nd and 3rd Grade Activities : Page 18

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Looking for an easy and creative craft? Beads come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors and your kids will have fun creating unique key chains.

Forget model kits! Promote creativity by having your child construct a dinosaur model using marshmallows and toothpicks.

Your child can cut and fold her way to lots of lovely spring tulips through the art of origami!

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

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

In this activity, your child will learn about the different parts of the brain and how mindfulness can build connections of calm.

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

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!

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

Embrace the spooky and creepy thrills of Halloween night with a nightlight that will do more to frighten than soothe.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Turn yourself into a personalized paper doll, along with a collection of your favorite outfits.

Making these one-of-a-kind mug markers will help your child flex his creativity and gain button-sewing practice.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

Here's a salt dough recipe that can be used to make ghostly character sticks for fun Halloween decor.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.