Preschool - 3rd Grade Measurement Activities

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

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

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!

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.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

How do animals keep warm? In this experiment, find out whether fat insulation resists cold temperatures and learn how this works in the animal kingdom.

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.