2nd - 7th Grade Activities : Page 54

This science fair project idea examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

Everyone has a dream. The hard part is striving to make those dreams come true. Encourage your child to dream big with this easy craft project.

This watercolor landscape creates the background for the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood by using spooky silhouettes for the characters.

A mobile craft filled with beautiful flying birds will brighten up any child's room.

This footwear-focused activity introduces fractions as part of a set and it's the perfect way to generate excitement about fraction concepts.

This decimal game is a great way to help your child get familiar with how decimal values work.

Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

These kid-friendly banana muffins are fun to make, and they pack in the protein with a healthy dose of quinoa added to the mix.

Soil is made up of different layers. How far down do you need to dig to find the soil horizon, or the place where bits of leaves and branches become soil?

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Magnets vary in strength. Have your young scientist figure out which kind of magnet is the strongest when you have him conduct this attractive experiment.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

Is horse manure a possible energy source in a crisis? Use calorimetry to find out how much energy horse manure can produce in this science fair project.

Recycle bottles of different shapes and sizes to create a group of unique dolls that are as unique as the real people around you!

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

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.

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Make this delicious warm apple bread for Hanukkah.

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

If you're looking for just the right dessert to serve with your Easter dinner, try your hand at an Easter Bunny cake.

This science fair project idea explores how enzyme inhibitors, active sites, non-competitive enzyme inhibitors, and substrates work.

A package of memory wire and some beads are all that your artist needs to make a bracelet. The challenge will be to come up with a design inspired by autumn.

Science fair project which uses coins flips to visually demonstrate the probability of an event and how to express it.

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.