3rd - 5th Grade Activities : Page 40

Take play-dough to the next level with this homemade recipe, adding surprising ingredients perfect for summer!

Show your fourth grader how to embrace a green lifestyle and enjoy the outdoors with a homemade, recycled picnic basket.

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

Make Hanukkah gift bags with your child this holiday season. These Hanukkah gift bags are great for passing out gelt to teachers and friends.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Spice up a traditional watercolor painting project with magazine cutout letters that spell out your favorite poem.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Help your kid organize her collection of earrings and other accessories with a fun embroidery craft!

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Show your fourth grader how to use sequins to create a gorgeous, gold-plated Easter egg.

In this activity, your child gets to peek behind the curtain of puzzle making as they create their very own "Spot the Differences" game!

Cherries usually burst with flavor, but in this science experiment they burst with osmotic pressure. This science activity will blow your curious kid's mind!

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

Show your love of nature with this pretty vase made with vines. It will be perfect for holding a floral bouquet!

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Your fifth grader will love dreaming up special fortunes and embedding them in mouthwatering cupcakes for friends and family.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

Help your child create a gift set perfect for all the tea drinkers in their life.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by counting and spelling your way to a "$1.00" word in this 3rd grade math and reading game.

This Santa Lucia crown is a beautiful craft for your child during the holiday season. Wear a Santa Lucia crown on St. Lucy's Day, December 13th.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Help your child make some super cute bunny cupcakes that will be the perfect Easter dessert.

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

Create a haunted house from upcycled materials in this lively craft project!

This science fair project idea explores whether a sundial is as accurate as an atomic clock when telling time.

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.