1st Grade Activities : Page 5

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

Spice up your first grader's spelling practice this Presidents Day by playing the Abraham Lincoln Penny Spelling game!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

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

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

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 adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

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

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

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!

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.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

Dog valentine cards are perfect for the pet lover in your life. Make a dog valentine card with your child this February.

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

Save some money this Halloween and work out fine motor skills by helping your child make his very own computer costume.

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Create an American flag pinwheel in this Fourth of July craft activity!

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

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