2nd - 6th Grade Activities : Page 71

Science fair project that identifies the differences between soils from different environments and attempts to figure out why those differences exist.

Here's a hands-on activity that helps your child understand the concept of "circumference."

Learn to make homemade ketchup with your child and experiment with spices and flavors!

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

On St. Patrick's Day, bond with your child over a delicious dish with potatoes as the focal point.

Inspired by the crispy, crunchy leaves of fall, this fanciful project is simple, easy and completely affordable. Now that's something to be thankful for!

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to reading and writing.

Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised a game!

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

In this activity, your child will get a review of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using classic domino pieces.

With a clear bottle and a few plastic straws, you can easily make a hummingbird feeder and demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure at the same time!

Making your own glass cleaner is easy, effective and inexpensive!

Science fair project which will teach you more about the foods that you eat, and learn which ones are healthier choices.

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Mix eggs, milk, and flour just so, and you can create spectacular, gourmet popovers this Easter!

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

Are you sneaky, sneaky? You'll have to be when your play this fun game involving squirt guns and blindfolds that'll test your child's stealth.

Learn the art of symbolism with the colorful African flag that's great for a parade or a decoration.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Help your child show Dad how super he is by making this homemade superhero shirt.

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.