Games and Activities
Looking for activities to show your child the fun side of learning? From science experiments and math games to writing projects and more, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to browse around, or narrow your search by grade and subject area.
Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!
Want to build the biggest, thickest bubbles around? This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!
More activities:
Make a Rain Stick!
This project, making a rain stick, is all about the sound of rain and opens the door for discussing different cultures, weather, cycles of growth, renewal, and life.
Toffee Science!
Take some butter, sugar, and a curious fourth grade chef, add some heat on the stove and some scientific principles about the different states of matter--and you can have a delicious batch of Toffee Science on your hands.
Make a Kinder Patterned Belt
In kindergarten, kids work with patterns - the more the better! Here's a practical piece of clothing you can make with your child that can't help but be fun.
Make a Number Game
This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers. He’ll be using all of these skills in the middle grades, when he uses numbers, decimals, fractions, and percents to describe operations, computations, measurements, and patterns
Play the Number Sentence Game
Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols. So shuffle the cards and let the game begin! First player to make the most âTrueâ number sentences wins!
Pitch and Hit Data
Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely. Combining an analytical activity, like graphing, with real world experiences shows your child that math is all around him.
Be a Temperature Collector!
By second grade, kids are just beginning to learn how to read a thermometer--a skill your child will use throughout his school years and throughout his adult life.
Play Perimeter 200
This at-home game gives your child practice using a step-by-step approach to finding the perimeter of simple objects he finds in his own room. It’s a great way to practice math skills together!
Make a "Handy" Thankgiving Wreath
First grade social science curriculum includes lessons on our Thanksgiving holiday, but there's no place like home to make it come alive. Here' s an activity that expresses thanks, while sneaking in some reading and writing practice, too.
Go Sight Word "Island Hopping"!
All you need is chalk and some pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces those all-important first grade sight words.
