Preschool - 7th Grade Activities : Page 15

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Coffee filter snowflakes are an easy winter craft and a good way to involve children of all ages in holiday decorating.

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

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

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Choose a design that is as simple or as intricate as you like and create a stencil that you can use over and over again.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

Do you think you can blow down a sand castle with a mighty wind? Find out which material stands up best to erosion in this erosion experiment.

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

In this microwave plant experiment, find out whether microwave radiation will affect radish seed germination. Will it help or hinder the plants' growth?

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.