1st - 4th Grade Activities : Page 7

These homemade Valentine's Day cards offer a heartfelt greeting for a special friend. Our homemade Valentine's Day cards feature hearts and a funny message.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

In this science fair project, students make their own rain gauge to measure rainfall.

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

While your cells are much too small to see without a microscope, you can create the look of a cell in your very own home with just an egg and vinegar!

Focus on tasty savory dishes instead of sweet treats this Valentine's Day: make Caprese salad with heart-shaped mozzarella.

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

How does rust form? Kids will learn about the roles oxygen, water, and electrons play in rust chemistry in this cool science fair project idea.

This easy and inexpensive paper towel science project introduces kids to important physical concepts like cohesion, adhesion, and capillarity.

What is the best stain remover for clothes? In this fun and easy science fair project idea, students will identify the best method for laundry stain removal.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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

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

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.