3rd - 8th Grade Activities : Page 60

Dress up the dining table with a sweet craft right in time for Valentine's Day.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

This chore obstacle course will keep your child entertained and engaged, while also helping them improve their efficiency at everyday tasks.

Challenge your child with this exciting 2D to 3D project using a sheet of construction paper, oil pastels, and scissors.

Science fair project in which you will learn more about the natural world by preserving and identifying different animal tracks.

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

Construct and experiment with a periscope using reflected light rays to gather an image.

This hands-on activity will introduce your third grader to the concepts of positive and negative space as she makes a shamrock!

This holiday season, don't forget the many delights of "cookie science"! Here's a confection we especially like.

This refreshing salad is tasty and chock full of fresh veggies! Your child will hone her slicing skills as she makes this delicious dish.

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

This year, create cute napkin rings to adorn your holiday table.

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

Calling all power-shoppers! This game is a fun way for kids to learn life skills, and flex their math muscles at the same time.

Tackle both boredom and mathematics with this inventive arts and craft project!

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Science fair project which examines the relationship between frequency of spider web vibration and spider's response time.

Here's a fun arts and crafts activity that has you and your child creating a book with a secret hollow!

Here's a hands-on activity you can do with your fourth-grader to practice measurement and directly apply the concept of area.

Introduce your child to the world of kite flying with Kite Frisbee, a great game that develops her kite flying and Frisbee playing abilities at the same time.

Your child can twist and turn their way to creating a freestanding wire form! When they're done they can position and display their small statue wherever they want.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

Help your child work on her sewing skills by making one-of-a-kind luggage tags for everyone in the family.

Create a dramatic, elegant line drawing of a pumpkin in this white-on-black Halloween art project. 

Here's a fun and simple activity to introduce your child to surface tension, and pull an awesome stunt in the process!

Create some cards and a factor board and get ready to practice multiplication. This game will help your kid get one step closer to memorizing times tables!

This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?

If your kid looks like she needs a break from homework or something to work on during commercials, show her how to make a necklace of paper beads!

This healthy chicken salad is spiced up with a dash of fragrant curry.

In Muslim culture, the ninth month of the calendar year is a celebration called Ramadan. Make badam sharbat, a traditional drink made during Ramadan!