1st and 2nd Grade Activities : Page 10

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

This flower necklace will have your child practicing patterns, repetition and tracing. Plus, it's so colorful and cute that it makes the perfect gift.

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

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

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

This science fair project teaches students the differences between fruits and vegetables.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

This Where the Wild Things Are costume will make your little wild thing look just like Max. This Where the Wild Things Are costume is surprisingly easy to make.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.