Kindergarten - 8th Grade Activities : Page 29

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

Celebrate the coming of Spring and Earth Day with this 3-D art project that makes use of recycled materials.

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Explore the craters, maria, and highlands on the surface of the Moon! In this fun science project you'll create a 3-D model of the moon using paper mache.

Kids generally can't come up with the cash to buy the bling they dream of giving mom. With this project, they can make her jewelry themselves!

Compare fractions in this two-player math game. The objective of the games is to work together to determine who has created the largest fraction.

Kids will learn how to make a steam powered rocket boat, also called a putt putt boat or a pop pop boat, in this great science fair project for 4th graders.

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Want a sugar-sculpted house, just like Hansel and Gretel found? Make a miniature version in this sweet geometry activity.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

In this science fair project, learn how a mineral streak is made and how it can help identify an unknown mineral.

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Science fair project that compares the freezing temperature of salt water and freshwater in order to learn about supercooling and condensation nuclei.

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

Is it amplitude? Weight? Length of string? Kids will discover what factors changing the period of a pendulum depends on in this fun and easy physics experiment.