2nd - 5th Grade Activities : Page 86

Help your student memorize the vocabulary needed to excel in geometry. This fun Tic-Tac-Toe game focuses on terms used when working with circles.

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.

Make a reusable picnic pouch with your child this summer to celebrate the Fourth of July in an eco-friendly way.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Here's a sweet holiday recipe to make with your fifth grader: bake scrumptious sugar-dusted chocolate snowballs! Serve them at your next Christmas party.

Choose a destination and "race" your way there! This activity is a great for charting progress and motivation.

This Halloween, have your child create a ghoulish bat treat keeper. While crafting he'll learn the basic components of sculpture.

Take a page from Art Nouveau master Gustav Klimt and compose a shining collage.

Pfeffernusse are spicy and sweet Christmas cookies from Germany. Make a batch of traditional pfeffernusse this holiday season.

Bake a cupcake menorah for a fun twist on the Hanukkah candelabra. This menorah isn't merely tasty, it's also a pretty presentation for the Festival of Lights.

When you see those sunscreen "protection levels," what does that really mean? Try this experiment to find out.

Your fourth-grader can hone her baking skills with this classic American recipe the whole family will enjoy!

Sure, angles can be confusing. Here's a fun activity to brush up your child's knowledge of these geometry essentials.

This simple and introductory art project can help propel an interest in art or even bolster your kid's confidence in planning and mapping.

In this activity, your child will experience multitasking, then mindfulness and compare the two in terms of productivity and calmness.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

Does your second grader want to learn a magic trick? Here is a simple trick using only 3 dice and a little bit of addition and subtraction.

Vincent van Gogh painted golden hued pictures of the harvest using bold lines and vibrant color. Your child can explore this style of art using oil pastels.

Make a beautiful bowl out of printed lines of poetry that you can use to store everything from jewelery to candy.

The crust is fun for kids to mix and roll out, and the filling overflows with vitamin and anti-oxidant packed berries!

If you're trying to teach your child about waste and its impact on the environment, why not repurpose a plastic milk jug and make your own sandwich container?

Children will reflect on the importance of diversity and brainstorm ways to support people in their community who may feel alone, researching local organizations that strive to help those people.

Inspired by colorful African drums and crafted from recyclable materials, these pencil holders will make a bold and charming addition to any desk set.

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

Ever wonder why refrigerator lights turn off when you close the door? Does the darkness prevent food from spoiling? This experiment, determines just that.

In this activity students first send kindness to themselves and then they send it to others.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

By using your child's own activity schedule, you can strengthen his understanding of elapsed time, and get him organized along the way!

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

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.