3rd - 6th Grade Activities : Page 68

Children build a "Loving Kindness Garden" to represent what they have learned about love, mindfulness, and caring for others in community.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Help your child get creative and collect leaves of various sizes and textures that she can use to make animal art.

Science fair project determines relationship between number and variety of insects and spiders by collecting and counting invertebrates in a ecosystem.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Reusable Christmas gift bags are eco-friendly and pretty. Make a batch of reusable Christmas gift bags for your friends and family this holiday season.

Banish your third grader's rainy day boredom by guiding his play group through a collaborative art project that leads up to the unveiling of a crazy creature!

The elegance of a glitter vase will rival the flowers inside it! Help your child craft this artsy gift as a special gift for a loved one.

The proportion game combines chance with math skills and is a perfect way for your third grader to become more familiar with equivalent fractions.

Children will create a "This is Me!" collage that will highlight their many gifts, talents, interests, and leadership skills.

A Christmas tree advent calendar will help your child count down the days until the holiday. This craft is a great way to keep your child busy this winter.

Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to reading and writing.

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Introduce your fifth grader to the irresistible fun of string art with this letter project!

This science fair project idea explores whether it is easier to balance on a narrow ledge or on a rope.

This science fair project examines which fruits and/or vegetables will ripen prematurely when placed with ripe apples.

Staying close to home doesn't mean you can't get moving! Use this fun challenge activity to encourage your child to move their body in new ways while testing their endurance!

From a Twilight novel to required reading, kids will learn about preconceptions as they predict a book's story based on the cover.

Children will reflect on the importance of performing acts of kindness for the Earth, hear a story about easy ways they can care for the Earth, and set goals to conserve more in their everyday lives.

Math Baseball is a fun and competitive way to review new math concepts and simple computations.

In this activity, your child will practice mindfulness, choose one thing to do in which they can slow down, and reflect on this experience. You can even try slowing down together!

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

In this social emotional learning activity, kids will reflect on the past goals they've accomplished, then brainstorm new ideas, inventions, or goals they would like to accomplish and make a prototype to help visualize their achievement.

In this activity, your child will reflect on and write a story about a person who has embodied integrity and honesty in their life.

Science fair project that determines whether lettuce that is harvested gradually yields more produce than lettuce that is harvested all at once.

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

Have you ever wondered how many numbers most people can memorize? Test your friends to find out!

This science fair project teaches you about what makes persimmons so tart and how astringency can be removed by studying the effect of tannins on fruit.