Preschool - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 12

A homemade coat of arms is a great way to get your child thinking about your family's values, and it makes a fun addition to the costume box as well!

In this free science fair project idea, we learn about surface tension and how it can support mass—in this case, a floating paper clip.

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

Do hand soaps and sanitizers prevent the growth of bread mold? If so, why? Kids will find out with this fun and informative science fair project idea.

These homemade thumbprint cards are as personalized as it gets, and your child will love using his prints to make holiday magic!

Your little preschool elf will develop some important fine motor skills while creating an entertaining game: Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree!

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

In this enlightening transpiration experiment, kids will explore how the loss of water from plants through transpiration contributes to the water cycle.

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Your kindergartener will delight in creating this "handcrafted" sweatshirt for Grandma and Grandpa this holiday season, filled with her colorful handprints.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Help your child build emotional awareness by creating a wheel full of pictures that make them feel a certain emotion.

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

New Year's Eve hats let you wear your celebratory spirit on your head. Make New Year's Eve hats with year child to ring in the New Year in style.

The objective of this science fair project is to observe the differences in heat absorption for darker colors vs. lighter colors.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

During this chilly winter season, try this fun indoor craft with your preschooler to help him explore art concepts like shape, form and texture.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.