First Grade Arts and Crafts Activities
First Grade Arts and Crafts activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy first grade arts and crafts activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Browse the activities below or use the selector to find similar activities.
Make a Spring Nature Vase
Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Capturing the feeling of a cheerful sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.
Paint for Learning at "Sidewalk School"
Help your child practice new writing and math skills with a fun outdoor activity that will have your child teaching you! By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice essential first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."
Get Your Head in the Clouds
First graders are eager to learn about science, especially when it comes to clouds. Let your child daydream a little and use those science and writing skills, too!
Craft a Yarn Octopus
Show your kid how to create her own cephalopod out of yarn. This simple, yet fun, project yields a friendly octopus that makes an adorable play or cuddle partner.
Become an Amateur Author
Nothing is better than a book for opening up uncharted territory for your little one to discover! Encourage your child to create a fresh new world of her own by making and writing her very own book.
Make Plastic Spoon Plant Markers
Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.
Decorate a 100th Day of School T-Shirt
A child who decorates her own 100th Day of School t-shirt will be sure to wear that shirt with pride on the actual 100th day of school!
Alphabet Snake Game
Looking for a fun way to teach your kids how to match and spell? An Alphabet Snake Game is a great way to get kids to learn how to say, spell and name a variety of objects while having some fun!
Craft a Native American Worry Doll
Ancient Indian tribes believed that if they told their worries to tiny dolls and placed them under their pillows at night, the dolls would take care of all the worrying for them. With clothespins and fabric, your child can set his own troubles away!
Make Giant Building Blocks
Don't take those old cardboard boxes out with the trash! Anything but waste, cardboard boxes can be taped back together, decorated, and then turned into jumbo-sized building blocks.
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