2nd - 8th Grade Activities : Page 40

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

Make this mason jar craft that looks like a glowing snowflake and works like a lantern!

Help your child practice multiplication tables with this mental and physical multitasking game that uses a hula hoop to get into the swing of things.

Your child will have a blast creating this adorable black cat with a cardboard tube and some pipe cleaners. A perfect craft for Halloween decorating!

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

Stuck inside on a rainy day? Teach your child a classic kid's game: Five Stones. All you need are five stones and a flat surface.

This science fair project idea investigates the difference in reaction times between boys and girls.

Get this cool science fair idea to explore how arctic tundra animals change their behavior and adapt to survive in long, cold winters.

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

Your child can twist and turn their way to creating a freestanding wire form! When they're done they can position and display their small statue wherever they want.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

This St. Patrick's Day, bond with your child over delicious potato pancakes that work for any meal.

This year on Mother's Day, here's a gift that builds vocabulary while bringing a smile to Mom's face!

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Beach bags don't have to be bought...make your own beach bag out of recycled materials in this summer craft.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

What better way to encourage family bonding and communication than to make a family directory to help everyone keep in touch?

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

Make this spring break a memorable one by creating a "growth" flower with your child, also great for your second grader's writing practice!

Explore geometry, patterns, and history by creating pretty decorative Islamic tile art.

Using dried beans and corn, foods that are prevalent in Mexican cuisine, your child will create three-dimensional sombrero art.

Science fair project that determines whether landscaping fabric impacts the ability of plants to receive water.

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

Challenge your kid's creativity with a fun fall art project that features you as the collaborator.

Improve your child's memory, focus, and concentration with this outdoor group memory game. For 4th grade, 5th grade, and middle school age children.

Teach your child about the importance and peacefulness of Ramadan as she gets creative drawing domes, minarets and prayer halls.

This unique project will help your child learn the basics of assemblage and he'll create a perfectly festive pumpkin in the process.

This science fair project idea attempts to train a worm to complete a simple maze in order to find out if worms can learn and remember.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will hear the story Zoo Zen: A Yoga Story for Kids, learn the benefits of yoga, and create their own yoga sequence to teach someone else.

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.