2nd - 8th Grade Activities : Page 42

Make a Duct Tape Wallet: This activity provides kids great practice in following directions and makes for a fun homemade gift.

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

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.

Expand on your childâs time-telling skills by helping him learn how an analog clock and a digital clock correspond.

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

Put your kid's Internet research skills to the test with this activity that will help him learn more about the history and cultural significance of fireworks.

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Your child can make her own Mexican tin art mirror with cardboard, a mirror, and an aluminum pan.

Your fourth grader will love practicing his math facts with this fun computation game.

Crystals are a very special structure. In this third grade activity, your child will learn how to grow salt crystals.

Here's a tasty summer holiday treat: oatmeal chocolate chip cookie sandwiches filled with cinnamon ice cream.

This science fair project compares the allelopathic affects of juglone, a chemical agent produced by the Black Walnut tree, on two plants.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

Encourage your child to memorize the items on the Seder plate and what they symbolize with this artsy activity.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

This fun science fair project idea helps students learn how acid rains are formed and explore how acid rain damages the environment.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Discover which fabrics shrink the most in the wash and why.

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!