1st and 2nd Grade Activities : Page 14

Help you child learn the colors of the rainbow and paint them in order by making a beautiful rainbow pot.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Your child can celebrate St. Patrick's Day by creating this textured clover made from tissue paper.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

This year on Mother's Day, here's a gift that builds vocabulary while bringing a smile to Mom's face!

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

It's a great time for family crafts. Here's a ghost Halloween decoration you and your child can make together.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

The meaning of Thanksgiving can sometimes get lost among the fun of food and family. Discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving with this fun activity.

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Why not change things up a bit with this fun way of making those loop-hole bunny ears that sit at the top of his sneakers.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

How do animals keep warm? In this experiment, find out whether fat insulation resists cold temperatures and learn how this works in the animal kingdom.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Help your second grader craft some lovely, personalized Valentine's Day cards--out of kitchen materials!

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.