2nd - 4th Grade Activities : Page 16

Use the holiday gift giving season as an excuse to give your fourth grader a valuable lesson in making and keeping a budget!

This science fair project idea demonstrates that light travels in straight lines and experiments with reflecting light.

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

This math game helps fourth graders improve their understanding of positive and negative integers in a fun way.

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Invite your child to create a lovely windmill using the ancient art of origami.

Prepare your child for winter with a fake igloo and a list of cozy and chilly vocabulary words.

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

Celebrate Earth Day, or any day, by recycling an old CD and make a colorful, decorative fish!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

This fun calculator exercise will take the mystery away from the machine, and familiarize your child with the functions of a calculator.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Make clothing battles a thing of the past by allowing your second grader to design his own dress-up shirt out of an ultra-comfy t-shirt for New Year's.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

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

Kids learn how to prevent erosion by growing grass. They'll test soil with grass against raw soil in this revealing science fair project idea for 4th grade.

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.

This is a fantastic and easy science experiment where kids will learn about elasticity by testing how high bouncy balls of different materials can bounce.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

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.