2nd and 3rd Grade Activities : Page 9

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Valentine bookmarks make reading lovely. Make a valentine bookmark that looks like a heart-filled bookworm.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Introduce your young artist to this art form with this fun and creative activity, which blends arts and crafts with patterning for hidden math practice!

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

In this enlightening transpiration experiment, kids will explore how the loss of water from plants through transpiration contributes to the water cycle.

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Demonstrate the properties of pressure and surface tension to explain how water can stay inside an upside down glass using cardboard.

Spark your child's interest in international sporting events by creating a banner of world flags.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Your child will boost her gross motor skills as she has fun playing with your easy-to-make and totally safe dart board and dart balls.

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

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.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter. In this activity, your child can put pick up a paintbrush and create a self-portrait inspired by this renowned artist.

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.