5th - 7th Grade Holidays Activities

Science fair project which determines whether plants are able to get enough nutrients from different types of garbage.

Make your very own fortune cookies from paper and share good fortunes with family and friends.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

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

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Does putting soapy water on plants help or hinder plant growth? Kids learn about greywater and how it affects plant growth in this cool science fair project.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

This easy strawberry banana smoothie is a healthy treat for kids. Make an easy strawberry banana smoothie for your child for a heart-healthy Valentine's Day.

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

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

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Create a string of paper jack-o'-lanterns with this simple Halloween paper craft!

Mummy chic or rag-tag retro? Catch the oldest trend in bandaged jewelry!

Embrace the spooky and creepy thrills of Halloween night with a nightlight that will do more to frighten than soothe.

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