1st - 3rd Grade Community and Culture Activities

This simple art project will help your child think of nice words to say that come from the heart.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

An "I Love You" book is a perfect gift for a very special friend on Valentine's Day. Our "I Love You" book shares the love in eight different languages.

Celebrate Mexican heritage and inspire creativity in your budding artist with this unique arts and crafts activity.

Celebrate Ramadan by creating a crescent moon and star...out of stars! This craft is the perfect way to introduce your child to an important national symbol.

Here's a great activity to help learners satisfy their snow play cravings in a cozy indoor setting!

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

Help your child create her own version of a Moroccan lantern to give her room an Arabian nights feel!

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Teach your child about the importance of Labor Day by helping her learn about the different hats that are worn by workers in various occupations.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

Your child can decorate her own set of Russian nesting dolls in this easy felt craft.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Teach your child about the importance and peacefulness of Ramadan as she gets creative drawing domes, minarets and prayer halls.

In this activity, your child will prepare for the first night of Passover by creating her own Seder plate.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

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

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

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

This Veterans Day, teach your kid about Remembrance Day and create a wreath of red poppies to honor the brave soldiers who died serving their countries.

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.

Your child will look forward to lunchtime with this artistic reinterpretation of the same old cold lunch.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!