2nd Grade Activities : Page 4

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Find the North Star, and measure your latitude! The purpose of this science fair project is to find latitude and learn about geographic locations.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

In this activity, your child will prepare for the first night of Passover by creating her own Seder plate.

You've got to try it to believe it! Making these sweet treats allows your second grader to practice with measurement and boost his motor skills.

How can we describe the relationship of magnetic field strength vs. distance? Kids will find out with this free science fair project idea.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

In this cool science experiment, learn about magnetism and poles, and test magnet strength to find out if two magnets are twice as strong as one.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card your child can make, write, and give. Great learning and lots of fun--a "lucky" combination for a lucky holiday!

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Get kids to celebrate Earth Day by designing their very own junk truck.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.