1st - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 30

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Make vibrant faux stained glass art inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter who explored repeating shapes using the primary colors.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Provide your child with Q-tip paint brushes that are bunched together and easy to grip, and encourage him to go to work on his painting masterpiece!

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

This fun photography activity will build your child's vocabulary, their understanding of the world, and they'll make their own game of concentration!

This construction paper activity helps your child to assemble a variety of emotions on a face so she can recognize how she and everyone around her is feeling.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Here's how to create an easy travel checkers board that you are your child can enjoy together using simple materials.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

This science fair project idea explores whether the process used to dry the beans we eat for food renders them unviable.

Learn Halloween fun facts and put them in this cool art project. Make a Halloween fun facts foldable with your child this October.

Take a closer look at your furry friend (or the furry friend of a neighbor -- with permission) to discover if communication exists between cats and humans.

Engage your third-grader in this version of the classic game and she will get lots of practice using mental math to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Satisfy your child's love of the game with a paper project starring his favorite pigskin!

Bake a delicious cherry pie in remembrance of one of country's most famous presidents -- George Washington!

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

A heart wreath is a pretty and festive Valentine's Day decoration. Make a heart wreath with your child this Valentine's Day.

Gather some friends for a bubbly soda taste test do determine calories' role in your favorite drinks.

Did you ever add salt to pasta? Did it help cook the pasta faster? If not, find out in this science fair project idea.

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

Help your child rocket off for some high-flying fun with a jet pack you make from recycled materials and a few odds and ends.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

Kids discover what a homogeneous mixture is by adding sugar to distilled water and identify the various factors affecting solubility.

Make your own menagerie of animals using empty walnut shells

Hisss! Make a snake pet from a recycled cardboard tube! Transport your child into nature with this fun and easy craft.