5th and 6th Grade Activities : Page 21

Help your child get creative and collect leaves of various sizes and textures that she can use to make animal art.

New Year's Eve invitations are festive and easy for kids to make. Create a set of New Year's Eve invitations to invite guests to your home this December 31.

Did you ever add salt to pasta? Did it help cook the pasta faster? If not, find out in this science fair project idea.

Young artists will combine two animals into one in this imaginative art-project-slash-game!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

Try turning the evening ritual of asking about your kid's school day into a challenging game that consists of twenty questions.

This science fair project idea attempts to train a worm to complete a simple maze in order to find out if worms can learn and remember.

This science fair project idea explores whether factors such as temperature and concentration affect the pH of a solution.

What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

Celebrate the holidays by making sufganiyot, or fried jelly donuts. This Hanukkah recipe is great for kids learning about the Festival of Lights.

The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate how yeast, a fungus, causes bread to rise.

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

Kokeshi dolls have been around since the 17th century, and now your child can recreate a piece of Japanese history and culture right at home.

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

Science fair project which determines whether a person's taste in music is dictated by the key that the song is written in.

Learn about landscape painting—and artist Grandma Moses—in this engaging watercolor activity!

Let your child show off his culinary prowess as he whips up this nutritious and delicious salmon recipe!

The next time your child decides he needs to press restart on his wardrobe, don't ship his clothes off to Goodwill so fast.

Science fair project which determines whether it is numerically possible to be connected to every person on the earth within six degrees of separation.

Here's an activity that has your teenager or child upcycling empty cereal boxes to create a handy, one-of-a-kind notebook holder to keep her space organized.

Did you know cooking supports your child in learning complex math skills? Reinforce your child's measurement and problem solving skills by whipping up some healthy sweet potatoes for a dinner side dish!

This science fair project idea recreates the movement of planetary bodies in order to learn why they sometimes appear to move backwards.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Get your child cooking with this easy side dish from the Bahamas.

What is the hydrologic cycle and how does it work? Check out this fun and easy science project where you will model and learn about Earth's water cycle!

This science fair project idea explores whether boiling and freezing water will have an effect on how much it weighs.

Glass is see-through, but usually you can still see that it is there. In this experiment, we use baby oil to make glass go completely invisible.

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