2nd - 5th Grade Activities : Page 13

Help your child appreciate grandparents, history, and societal changes while making a poster handmade, heartfelt grandparent's day craft.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Got a kid who loves fashion? Help her develop her own unique style with this tie-dye project using natural dyes.

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.

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.

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Transform a brown paper grocery bag into a hat in this arts and crafts activity!

Chlorine and chloramine are added to our tap water to kill harmful microorganisms. What is the best way to filter these disinfectants in your drinking water?

Have you ever noticed the ridges on a dog's nose? In this project, we take several dogs' nose prints and discover just how unique they are!

This science fair project idea measures out the sugar of various foods and find out whether people can correctly determine how much sugar is in common foods.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Is your little scientist up for a rocky challenge? Let them make their own geode rocks using eggs and epsom salts!

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

What is the best stain remover for clothes? In this fun and easy science fair project idea, students will identify the best method for laundry stain removal.

In this Bernoulli's Principle experiment, you'll learn how an increase in the speed of a fluid, like air, decreases pressure.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Create a chunky, textured, tactile giraffe collage that is cute enough to pet! This is a great way to recycle old arts and crafts materials.

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.