5th and 6th Grade Activities : Page 30

Here's a black fuzzy spider that's sure to cause a silly fright! This eight-legged creepy crawler is sure to surprise anyone looking for a treat.

This Santa Lucia crown is a beautiful craft for your child during the holiday season. Wear a Santa Lucia crown on St. Lucy's Day, December 13th.

This homemade keepsake book is a great project for your fifth grader to make for someone special this holiday season!

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

Help your child visualize their goals for the new year by creating a self-portrait that represents all of the amazing things they have done and hope to do.

Your child can create a cute basket out of felt to collect her Valentine's Day treats in or give as a gift!

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

Explore if planting seeds in a certain direction will affect how fast it germinates.

Be an inspector detective for a day in this fun mystery game that puts your child's powers of observation to the test. Perfect for a party or group gathering.

Invite your kid to decorate your family's ordinary coffee mugs with brightly colored beaded rings!

Is your child missing a friend or family member that's away at college, far from home, or in the hospital? This cute gift box says "Wish you were here!"

At your next Valentine's Day celebration, your fifth grader can show family and friends she loves them with some fresh, fruity drinks--made from scratch!

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

Try this winter-themed arts and crafts activity for fifth graders: make colorful woolly pompoms! All you need is yarn and stiff cardboard to get started.

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

This pet blanket is a perfect sewing project for your little gifter with a furry friend. Make a pet blanket with your child this holiday season.

Cook up a batch of monster blood this Halloween to add gory details to vampires, zombies, werewolves and more.

Use a recycling project to hone your childâs sewing skills and clean up her art supplies when she turns the leg of an old pair of jeans into a storage basket.

Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to reading and writing.

Explore your kitchen and create a delicious holiday fudge that your child can share with friends and family!

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

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

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

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.

Help your kid pack her lunch in style with a recycled show box redesigned as a zombie survival kit.

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.

A simple science experiment exploring the physics of water pressure that's been amazing people since Medieval times.

This science fair project idea explores whether it is easier to balance on a narrow ledge or on a rope.

Staying close to home doesn't mean you can't get moving! Use this fun challenge activity to encourage your child to move their body in new ways while testing their endurance!