4th Grade Activities : Page 4

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

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

Decorate with a banner made from paper, clover shapes and buttons to celebrate spring or St. Patrick's Day!

Capture a bit of magic with these mesmerizing ice balloons!

The purpose of this science fair project is to determine which conditions and materials quicken the composting process to make the best compost.

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

In this science fair project, students make their own rain gauge to measure rainfall.

This science fair project idea measures out the sugar of various foods and find out whether people can correctly determine how much sugar is in common foods.

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

This science fair project idea determines if the color of light affects the growth of plants.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

Using an empty plastic bottle, your child can create a newfangled version of this African percussion instrument.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Explore geometry, patterns, and history by creating pretty decorative Islamic tile art.

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.

Examine whether distilled water, spring water, or regular tap water yield faster plant growth.

Celebrate the spirit of Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech with this meaningful and educational art project.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Have you ever noticed the ridges on a dog's nose? In this project, we take several dogs' nose prints and discover just how unique they are!

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Learn about magnifying glasses, concave lenses and inverted images by sending rays of light through a magnifying glass in this cool science fair project!