2nd - 5th Grade Activities : Page 38

In this science fair project, learn how a mineral streak is made and how it can help identify an unknown mineral.

Why pay for expensive plates when you can paint original designs on your own dishes? This fun activity will bring out your kid's creative side.

How to test for acids and bases? In this activity you and your child can make your own indicator from red cabbage!

Observe corn seed germination to learn about dicots and monocots and how plants grow from seeds to seedlings to full-grown plants!

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Skip store-bought jewelry and show your stylish kid how to make her own beaded bracelets.

Your child can create a vibrant and dazzling array of flowers by blending and scraping into paint, and then creating a collage.

Reusable Christmas gift bags are eco-friendly and pretty. Make a batch of reusable Christmas gift bags for your friends and family this holiday season.

Celebrate Mexican heritage and inspire creativity in your budding artist with this unique arts and crafts activity.

Flowers will brighten up anyone's day! Share the joy of spring by making a picture of a vase with fun 3-D flowers that will never wilt.

Here's a homemade bulletin board project to help your fourth grader's school year start off right.

Show your child how to paint in true Georgia O'Keeffe style. He'll enjoy painting art inspired by a master, and boost his math skills, too.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

This science fair project idea explores how the shape of a boat affects its density and how much weight it can float.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

This recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

This pet blanket is a perfect sewing project for your little gifter with a furry friend. Make a pet blanket with your child this holiday season.

This gumbo recipe is a yummy way to celebrate Black History Month, and get a little practice in measurement.

Check out this activity that has your kid create her own Cubist montage. Soon your kid will be well on her way to understanding the vibrant art of Cubism!

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Show your teen how to live green by transforming old CD cases into drawer dividers and help her get organized in the process.

These easy-to-make felt friends are created by sewing two pieces of felt together with yarn and make great gifts for holidays such as Easter.