Kindergarten - 8th Grade Activities : Page 135

Help your kid celebrate Valentine's Day and keep up with her homework with this butterfly pencil craft!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will listen to their favorite song and explore how it makes them feel. Then, together you will craft your own cardboard radio!

In this activity, your child will hear a story and practice mindful breathing. They will paint a picture that reminds them to bring mindfulness and kindness to their puppy mind.

In this activity, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

What better dessert to serve on April Foolâs Day than cookie fish sticks? Make this fish stick meal for an unforgettable reaction.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

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.

Make a beautiful bowl out of printed lines of poetry that you can use to store everything from jewelery to candy.

Demonstrate how to tell the age of an egg without having to crack it open.

Celebrate Veterans Day with your child by helping them create and send a well-deserving veteran a "thank you" card via the U.S. Veteran's Affairs Department.

Candy cane cookies are a great alternative to traditional candy canes, and your family will have a blast making them over the holidays!

Give a holiday greeting that everyone will remember by making this tactile card with your child this year.

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

This simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

Give Hallmark a run for its money with these handmade printed cards.

This creamy peanut butter fudge is a great first recipe to get your first or second grader involved with because it doesn't involve any time in the oven!

Science fair project that helps you better understand density by comparing the relative densities of cans of Coke and Diet Coke.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

This easy indoor activity teaches kids how to mix kitchen ingredients into watercolor paints, while giving a crash course in color-combining.

Use your cookie cutters with jello to have the kids create a story with the shapes they choose.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

This paper project is sure to hit a home run with your sporty kid.

The Earth is always providing in so many ways! In this activity, children reflect on how the Earth gives and on their love for the Earth through discussion and letter writing.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.