First Grade Social Studies Activities

First Grade Social Studies activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy first grade social studies activities to more advanced, we've got you covered!

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It's always fun to recycle household items into something great. Here's a quick and easy way to turn a used juice box into a police radio for hours of play!

Juice Box Police Radio

First Grade
Community & Cultures

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

Make Your Own Pinata!

First Grade
Community & Cultures

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

Craft a Japanese Fan!

First Grade
Community & Cultures

Whether you're teaching your children about the Native peoples of the American Southwest or simply looking for a fun project, sandpainting is a great activity.

Make a Native American Sandpainting

First Grade
Community & Cultures

Boost your child's sense of self by celebrating ME! She'll explore her family, draw a self portrait and more, a perfect exercise for building self-confidence.

Celebrate ME (7)

First Grade
Community & Cultures

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

Going to the Park? Make a Map!

First Grade
Geography

Imagine you're an aborigine from Australia by creating a painted boomerang made out of cardboard!

Aboriginal Craft

First Grade
Community & Cultures

Help your first grader craft a magnetic menorah that he can safely 'light' himself!

Make a Magnetic Menorah

First Grade
Holidays

Get your first grader into the Thanksgiving spirit by encouraging her to dress up as a Native American with her very own extravagant looking headpiece.

Design a Native American Headpiece

First Grade
Community & Cultures

Kids are acutely aware of what's 'fair' and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Let Your Kids Campaign!

First Grade
Civics & Government

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Make a "Today Is" Poster

First Grade
Community & Cultures

Invite your first grader to follow a African tradition by coming up with an explanatory African folktale and assembling a book to go along with it.

Create an Animal Folk Tale

First Grade
Community & Cultures

Perfect for kids in elementary school, this fun teepee place card craft will help your child get in the Thanksgiving mood and practice her fine motor skills.

Make Thanksgiving Teepee Place Cards

First Grade
History

In this activity, your child will make her own book of Swahili numbers filled with pictures of animals found throughout Africa.

Make a Swahili Counting Book

First Grade
Community & Cultures

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Make a Chinese Dragon

First Grade
Community & Cultures

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