1st Grade Activities : Page 2

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

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.

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

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Understanding emotions can be a helpful tool for self-regulation. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice identifying different emotions and explore how they connect with various gestures and facial expressions.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

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