4th and 5th Grade Activities : Page 20

Try a fun Mother's Day game for moms and kids to play together!

Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

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

Practice third and fourth grade measurement skills and make a practical holiday gift in the process!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.

The goal of this science fair project is to demonstrate different ways to generate static electricity and record its effects.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

Have a young architect or designer on your hands? Here's an easy activity for him to learn the basics of landscape and architecture while having fun!

Kids will get a kick out of shopping for discounted "kicks" with this creative math game that focuses on percentages.

Students explore hot desert plant adaptations in this cool science fair project by observing how these organisms prevent excessive transpiration.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

Need an outdoor activity for your next party or family gathering? Try this wacky group relay game that's fun for adults and kids alike.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Introduce your kid to cooking basics as you make shepherd's pie: a traditional Irish dish thanks to the trusty potato!

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Illustrate the importance of bicycle safety in this simple 5th grade science experiment. All you need to start are an egg, a Styrofoam ball, and rubber bands.

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

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

Our baked French toast recipe is particularly tasty on a chilly winter morning. Make our baked French toast recipe with your child to teach them about measuring.

A great recipe for a Cinco de Mayo party or any fiesta, any time of the year!

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

These homemade juggling balls are super simple to make and are a blast to play with. Not to mention, they're great practicing hand-eye coordination.

Your growing child will reflect on her identity and express herself with this fun and artistic photo project.

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!

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Make some beautiful and unique candles to light your home.

Discover whether the â5-second ruleâ is effective at determining whether food is still safe to eat after being dropped on the ground.