2nd - 8th Grade Activities : Page 62

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

In this arts and crafts activity, you can make fun bracelets using just a handful of buttons and some elastic cord. And it's a counting game, too!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

This bottle cap jewelry project is a fun way to add personal style to your pre-teen's wardrobe without breaking the bank or battling mall crowds.

Make this delicious Hollywood craft for kids that looks like film reels for the perfect Oscar party dessert or movie star meal!

Help your child create her very own invention just like Leonardo da Vinci as she develops her critical thinking skills and lets her imagination soar!

Bring a little Caribbean flavor and cultural knowledge to the table with this delicious conch salad, a local Bahamian dish.

In this activity, kids learn a little about Japanese culture by making their own windsock in the shape of a koi fish.

Get inspired by the great outdoors and help your child make a quirky jewelry tree out of chopsticks!

Science fair project which measures the shadow cast by a meter stick at various times in order to predict the circumference of the earth.

Even the birds need to get out of the rain during the winter months. Help your child help nature and fill a lazy afternoon with this easy, cute craft.

Your child can make a sweet and savory spinach strawberry salad; two ingredients that come together for a light and fresh summer dish!

This science fair project idea recreates the movement of planetary bodies in order to learn why they sometimes appear to move backwards.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Discover a way to take old denim out of your child's closet without removing it from her life with this beautiful recycled craft.

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

This yarn heart is a rustic Valentine's Day decoration that will bring some heartfelt cheer to your home. Make a yarn heart with your little Valentine.

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.

Hanukkah stamps help you decorate anything from cards to gifts to wrapping paper. Make your own Hanukkah stamps out of potatoes.

Science fair project that determines whether mass and weight are the same or different.

These homemade Valentine's Day cards offer a heartfelt greeting for a special friend. Our homemade Valentine's Day cards feature hearts and a funny message.

Valentine's Day is a great day to show loved ones how much you appreciate them, and this love bug craft is an adorably simple way to spread the love.

This easy indoor activity teaches kids how to mix kitchen ingredients into watercolor paints, while giving a crash course in color-combining.

Introduce your fifth grader to the Kinara, part of the Kwanzaa tradition, by playing this fast-paced, two player game!

In this cool experiment, learn how to find specific gravity of minerals using liquids of different densities to see which substances and items sink and float.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice a mindfulness and forgiveness visualization and write a letter to someone with whom they've had a minor conflict and would like to forgive.

Show your teen how to live green by transforming old CD cases into drawer dividers and help her get organized in the process.

Watch pre-packaged seeds and seeds taken from inside fruits and vegetables grow. Which ones will grow faster? Read more in this science fair project idea.