1st and 2nd Grade Activities : Page 6

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

In this activity you'll use coffee...to paint! It's a wonderful way to provide your child with a hands-on experience with natural dyes.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year by creating mosaic shamrock art with your child.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

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

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Kids make a cute pipe cleaner bumble bee craft and learn a few interesting bee facts along the way in this spring-themed arts and crafts activity.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

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