Looking for some fun games and activities for 2nd graders to keep your child occupied — and learning — at home? Check these out!
Fun learning games and activities for 2nd graders
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Play ball
Practicing catching, bouncing and kicking skills helps to build coordination and readiness for future sports teams.
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Create crazy captions
This simple but fun activity builds reading and writing skills.
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Math’s a beach
This game reinforces the skill of quickly recalling basic addition and subtraction facts.
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Make a bread mold garden!
This activity teaches observation and experimentation, important skills for budding scientists.
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Where in the world?
Use a laminated map to help children learn where current events are taking place and build social studies skills.
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Handwriting cues
Reinforce proper letter formation by writing lists and notes together with your second grader.
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Create an obelisk
This activity will introduce children to how Egyptians used decoration to give extra meaning to a structure and will encourage them to explore this concept through their own creativity.
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Create a comic book
Your second grader will learn to use the Drawing Toolbar in Microsoft Word to create his own family comic book. This activity builds writing and computer skills.
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Rhythm language
Your second grader can make notes with Popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners, and then learn to speak a new “rhythm language” using his homemade “notes.”
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Make a paper quilt
This activity teaches math skills and creative problem solving.
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Make a self-portrait
Making a self-portrait is an engaging art project for second graders.
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Develop a mental image
Have your child make a mental image of a passage that has been read aloud.
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Weather graph
Have your child observe the weather for a week or more and make a bar graph of the results.
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Does it sink or float?
In this activity your child makes predictions about what objects will sink or float, tests the objects and then classifies them.
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Act out a script
This activity will help your child have fun, increase reading fluency and expression, and get the whole family involved.
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Make a pop-up book
This book is fun to make and will encourage your child’s writing and artistic skills.
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Make a reading tree
Have your child keep track of the books he reads by having him write them on a reading tree.
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Plant parts salad
Make a healthy salad with your child out of plant parts.
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Describe an object
In this activity your child writes about an object in detail.