Preschool - 6th Grade Activities : Page 132

What is a compound microscope? Kids find out by making one of their own in this cool science fair project.

This zombie shirt is a fun and incredibly simple Halloween costume. Have your kid don the shirt lurch around the neighborhood searching for brains...or candy!

Are you sneaky, sneaky? You'll have to be when your play this fun game involving squirt guns and blindfolds that'll test your child's stealth.

This shamrock magnet is the perfect project for St. Patrick's Day. It's simple to make and will fill your refrigerator with Irish spirit!

An easy afternoon craft, this reusable heating compress is just the thing for warming cold limbs on chilly winter days.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

Need another reason to celebrate Thanksgiving? Now kids can create a sunny, textured sunflower card to remember the day!

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Air-drying clay gives your young artist the opportunity to make a simple bowl that mimics the beauty of an autumn leaf.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

A car game for road trips with children.

Your child can make her own Mexican tin art mirror with cardboard, a mirror, and an aluminum pan.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Help your child make these tasty treats for someone with a sweet tooth. These cookie pops are not only fun and delicious, but they're quick to make, too!

Have your child try her hand at creating a colorful, beaded necklace that's not only stylish, but also tells a story.

Your fourth grader will improve her hand-eye coordination making catnip mice, and you'll finally have a use for all those mate-less socks in the laundry room!

Contrary to popular belief, peanut butter and jelly can be served any time of day. Promote PB&J to breakfast with these tasty pancakes.

Kids feel like theyâre playing with dinner, and get to explore different shapes of pasta while making a mirror image print with tomato sauce.

In this activity, your child will practice mindfulness, choose one thing to do in which they can slow down, and reflect on this experience. You can even try slowing down together!

In this activity, your child will take a walk outside, listen to the silence in between sounds, and draw what the experience was like for them.

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

Hand-painted pottery is the perfect way to add a bit of decoration to your potted plants.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

Put a spin on your child's old routine with this salad spinner painting project.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

This Santa key lets kids invite Mr. Claus inside, even if they don't have a chimney. Make a Santa key with your child to bring some Christmas cheer inside.

Show your fourth grader how to design and print his own chop, a Chinese "signature" of sorts that uses calligraphic characters or motifs.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!