5th and 6th Grade Activities : Page 17

Here's a tasty summer holiday treat: oatmeal chocolate chip cookie sandwiches filled with cinnamon ice cream.

Discover whether different amounts of water added into a wine glass will produce a different pitch when their fingers are rubbed along the rim.

Help your fifth grader create an art card that celebrates the enduring values of Passover.

Make an elegant Mother's Day card to celebrate the love and work in raising kids.

The objective of this science fair project is to set up a compost bin to convert food scraps and organic waste.

Recycle paper and old magazines with this art project that creates a great tool for artists: a color wheel!

Your child can be Santa's Helper this year by making a Christmas card and a paper poinsettia for someone in her life who may get overlooked this year.

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Is your child an amateur origami master? Reach the next stage of paper folding genius with this origami heart!

In this arts and crafts activity, you and your child will create colorful three-dimensional artwork using scrunched-up fabric pieces.

Science fair project that examines how winter storms form and the relationship between temperature, moisture and snow.

Soil is made up of different layers. How far down do you need to dig to find the soil horizon, or the place where bits of leaves and branches become soil?

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

Create a silhouetted Halloween candle holder with this upcycled activity!

A package of memory wire and some beads are all that your artist needs to make a bracelet. The challenge will be to come up with a design inspired by autumn.

These 3-D snow globe cookies look amazing on any table and will gets kids excited about the upcoming holiday season!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

This activity teaches your third grader how to make a paper cut-out still life, in true Matisse-style.

Create a haunted house from upcycled materials in this lively craft project!

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

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

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

This easy at-home experiment is a great way to "see" science.

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

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

The objective of this science fair project is to experiment with balancing everyday objects and observing the the effects of gravity on materials.

This science fair project demonstrates the magic of arches by challenging students to stack telephone books on top of eggs without breaking them.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the basic principles of air pressure using simple materials like a balloon, straw and string.

This science fair project idea explores how much force is needed to move a lever at different distances from the fulcrum.