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.

Turn Your To-Do List Into an Advent Calendar

Turn Your To-Do List Into an Advent Calendar

Reinvent your family's list of holiday to-dos as an advent calendar countdown! His fine motor skills will be given a boost as your responsibilities become manageable!

Group It!: A Skip Counting Activity

Group It!: A Skip Counting Activity

Counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s may not sound like much fun. But using "skip counting" with real objects you find or make at home is a different story...it can be hours of entertainment. Here's a hands-on activity to touch and move real stuff while building abstract reasoning...paint, shoes, and coins ...

Create Your Own Christmas Story!

Create Your Own Christmas Story!

Enhance your youngster's verbal skills by attaching magnets to Christmas images and encouraging her to narrate her own unique holiday tale!

Make an Icy Sun-Catcher

Make an Icy Sun-Catcher

Teach your budding botanist new plant vocabulary as he creates a beautiful, icy sun-catcher.

Egg Carton Craft Idea: Hatched Chicks

Egg Carton Craft Idea: Hatched Chicks

Newly-hatched chicks are one of the cutest Spring things! Now you can have these precocious peeps around any time of year, with this simple egg carton craft idea.

Make an Egg Surprise Pop-Up Picture

Make an Egg Surprise Pop-Up Picture

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Ponder this age-old question while you make a clever egg pop-up picture that hides a special surprise.

Draw a Fairy Tale Map

Draw a Fairy Tale Map

See how far imagination can go when your child flexes reading comprehension muscle with a map drawing of her favorite tale!

Make Holly Hair Clips for Christmas

Make Holly Hair Clips for Christmas

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

Make a 100 Piece Collage to Celebrate 100 Days

Make a 100 Piece Collage to Celebrate 100 Days

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school and accomplishments by creating a collage with 100 memorable pieces!

Accordion Book

Accordion Book

In this activity, you can make learning to read even more fun for kids by creating an accordion learning book filled with fun transportation pictures. Your child will learn how to verbalize words and identify their physical counterpart with this accordion book.

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