3rd and 4th Grade Activities : Page 23

Learn about Rosh Hashanah and other Jewish holidays by planning and creating a Jewish holiday calendar.

Demonstrate how static electricity can cause an object to move. It also examines just how an object affected by static electricity will move.

Make this delicious warm apple bread for Hanukkah.

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

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.

Kids will make predictions about cricket behavior by conducting this fun and easy experiment which simulates different environments for crickets.

This Kool-Aid tie-dye activity is a kid-friendly craft that never gets old. Learn how to make tie-dye shirts using assorted Kool-Aid flavors here.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

What do you get when you cross a pool, water balloons and hula hoops? Pool Basketball, an exciting summer game perfect for kids of all ages.

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

Horseshoes makes a perfect family activity for a summer afternoon. With a bit of cardboard and handful of pennies, you can create your own set!

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Make a kaleidoscope at home to teach your child about the color spectrum and mirror science.

Check out this fun and easy 4th grade science fair project idea that tests how gravity induces positive and negative geotropism (gravitropism) in bean plants.

Here's a homemade bulletin board project to help your fourth grader's school year start off right.

This science project teaches students to classify different shapes of leaves.

Turn up the heat this February with a melted crayon heart, a crafty and colorful decoration for Valentine's Day.

Help your third grader create a Venn diagram fantasy creature by combining two different creatures to create a fantasy creature based on their similarities.

What is topography? Kids find out by learning to make and read a topographic map in this awesome science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea explores plant growth from a bulb, root, and a stem and investigates asexual plant reproduction.

Every year at the Passover Seder, the Ten Plagues are mentioned as part of the ritual. Have your kid draw the plagues to help him remember their importance.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

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.

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.

This project makes learning the difference between warm and cool colors easy and fun. And it's a great intro to complimentary colors - great for pop art!

Focus on tasty savory dishes instead of sweet treats this Valentine's Day: make Caprese salad with heart-shaped mozzarella.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your child put together his own "Back to School" scrapbook.

This colorful garland can be strung across a fireplace and remind you of your blessings well into the new year.