Preschool - 5th Grade Activities : Page 38

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

This sweet cardstock bouquet featuring your child's photo is sure to make Mom or Grandma smile on Mother's Day or any day of the year.

Try this winter-themed arts and crafts activity for fifth graders: make colorful woolly pompoms! All you need is yarn and stiff cardboard to get started.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology science fair project.

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

Turn an empty cereal box into a teacher appreciation card in this eco-friendly craft project! 

Science fair project idea which teaches you how to make butter by separating cream into butter and buttermilk.

Breathe new life into a battered old paperback with this creative book art craft that revolves around reading!

Practice counting, sequencing, and pattern recognition with your young learner in this fun math card game!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Kids will discover the meat science behind the meat they eat, and find out how to use safe chemistry to make meat more tender.

This Valentine's Day, promote strong hearts with an active relay that the whole family can enjoy! It's light on the wallet, but heavy on heart health.

Kids make a paperclip perform an act of magnetic levitation and test how effective various materials are at magnetic shielding in this science fair project.

Explore African culture by helping your child make his very own djembe drum! Help your child explore music and rhythm as he celebrates Black History Month.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Promote the well-being of your first or second grader's mind and body by teaching him some beginning yoga poses and techniques.

This project compares the strength of one, two, and three-ply toilet paper.

Dig up some dinos while promoting curiosity and sensory skills in this hands-on activity that will have your child searching for prehistoric treasure!

Kids paint a still life of a vase of flowers using colors found side by side on the color wheel, just like Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Do different types of oil mix or stack? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.

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