1st - 4th Grade Activities : Page 17

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Teach your kid a fun mathematical magic trick! All you'll need is a deck of cards and basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

If your science savy third grader is up for a challenge, let her bend light with a casserole dish!

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

This flower necklace will have your child practicing patterns, repetition and tracing. Plus, it's so colorful and cute that it makes the perfect gift.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

This science fair project idea researches the different layers of the atmosphere and creates a visual representation of the atmospheric layers.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.