4th - 8th Grade Activities : Page 22

Conduct a mock interview with the President to teach your child about politics, the president and the world she lives in.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Create a yarn doll out of a few toothpicks and colorful string with this Guatemalan craft.

Making a freedom kite is a great way to show appreciation on Memorial Day or July 4th, and enjoy the summer sunshine with family.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

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.

Let your fifth grader craft a gleaming green shamrock pin for himself or a friend this St. Patrick's Day!

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

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!

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

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.

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

Learn about the beautiful Indian art of Madhubani painting with this fun and creative project.

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

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

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

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.

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.

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

This science fair project idea determines the probability of a coin landing heads or tails.

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.