Fourth Grade Activities

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

Want to get your fortune told? Step right up and make your own fortune teller box out of a shoe box!

Channel your inner shaman with a shaman stick made from recycled paper towel rolls and cereal boxes!

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

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

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

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!

Children learn about mindfulness tools that may support them to manage their emotions. Then they will create their own video to teach others these same mindfulness tools.

In this activity, learners will discover how to make a basic water filtration system using common materials found around the house or outside.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Being able to guess the likelihood of an event is a useful skill. Discuss probability with your kid as you play this fun math card game!

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Celebrate Earth Day by making a poster that encourages people not to litter.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

Make your own recycling game that helps teach your child what can and should be recycled.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!