4th - 8th Grade Activities : Page 23

Chocolate dipped candy canes make an elegant and delicious Christmas treat that your fifth grader can make. Make chocolate dipped candy canes with your child.

Focus on tasty savory dishes instead of sweet treats this Valentine's Day: make Caprese salad with heart-shaped mozzarella.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

This entertaining magic trick will 'trick' kids into using math skill to impress their friends!

Protozoa and ciliate and amoeba, oh my! The objective of this science fair project is for students to use a microscope and identify microscopic life.

It's not always bad to think negatively -- step into the creative and unique world of negative space drawing!

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

Would your dog prefer homemade or store-bought food? Raw or cooked? Test your dog's preferred diet in this fun experiment.

How good are humans at sound localization? Kids can try this cool science fair project idea to see how good their friends are at judging sound direction.

Have your child make a holiday scarf with inexpensive materials, no sewing required!

In this cool experiment, learn how to find specific gravity of minerals using liquids of different densities to see which substances and items sink and float.

Your fourth grader will hone his fine motor skills and learn to follow directions as he creates this recycled angel tree topper out of an ordinary soda bottle!

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Want to see a great example of Newton's first law? Kids will learn about basic physics with this fun, ballistic experiment.

Make physical activity fun with this 4th-5th grade fitness game that's a twist on classic Tic-Tac-Toe.

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Music is all around us. Bring some melody into your home with a hand-crafted door harp.

Dive into the world of cooking oil and smoke points to discover just how fast some oils start smoking.

Make learning how to calculate surface area easy and fun using this simple hands-on approach.

The purpose of this science fair project is to study the properties of sugar and examine individual preferences for sugar and other sweeteners.

Here's a party game that's guaranteed to bring along lots of laughs. Kids get creative as they act out improve scenes with some help from an audience.

With this science fair idea, little scientists will gain valuable insights into the physics behind throwing a baseball.

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

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

make the most original Easter eggs on the block with this beading craft to ring in the Spring!

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

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.

Teach your fourth grader how to craft her own decorative felt eggs, a perfect way to symbolize spring and new beginnings!