1st and 2nd Grade Activities : Page 11

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

Spice up your first grader's spelling practice this Presidents Day by playing the Abraham Lincoln Penny Spelling game!

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

Try your hand at some Seuss-like tongue twisters! Boost those vocabulary skills with this fun game for the whole family.

A Valentine's Day pop-up card is the perfect way to show your love on February 14th. Get creative with a fun 3-D paper art project.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Full of charm and creative possibilities, this fun hat will be ready for playtime in no time.

Your child can use colorful construction paper to make an easy paper basket to hold some of his special things!

First grade math includes lots of work with two-digit numbers. Here's an activity to help kids practice recognizing and sequencing numbers from 1-30.

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

In this activity, your child will learn and teach someone else five finger breathing, and they will also draw a picture of their experience.

Check out this simple version of a pairs game that's played all over the world. It's a great way to practice estimating and predicting mathematical outcomes.

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Ancient tribes believed that these dolls kept worries away at night. Your 1st grader can make his own and learn about history, culture, and art in this activity

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

Make sure your child is prepared for Halloween by having him create a stamp-printing that says: "Trick or treat? Smell my feet!"