Elementary School Back to School Activities

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your child put together his own "Back to School" scrapbook.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

As school starts, there's no better time to get your kid off to a fresh, fun, organized start. Here's a desk craft for style-minded students!

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

This is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

This colorful foam pencil topper will glam up any boring pencil and is guaranteed to add personality to any pencil case!

Keep school day sniffles at bay with a simple felt tissue cozy that fits neatly in a 3-ring binder.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

For kids who prefer to do homework flopped on a rug, this practical caddy can make all the difference!

Looking for a customized locker accessory? Try this DIY Mirror Craft and spruce up a plain old mirror with some original designs.

It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Here's a homemade bulletin board project to help your fourth grader's school year start off right.

Using only straight-line sewing, your fourth can create a nifty felt pencil case perfect for his busy life.

Instead of tossing old school supplies, turn them into a work of art and teach your kids how to find new uses for old things.

Get into the back-to-school spirit with this clip magnet that'll make sure your first grader never loses his important school papers again!

This school year, have your child decorate his very own clip board and watch him do his homework in style!