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First Grade Activities

These first grade activities are an easy way to help your child further develop her skills in reading, writing, math, and science. In addition to being educational, these printable first grade games are also fun! Activities for first grade include games like nursery rhyme mad libs, bowling for addition, and sandwich bag explosion. Activities like these allow first graders to be engaged while having a good time.

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Candle Burning Experiment

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

How to Make a Wind Vane

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Play Ice Cream Addition!

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

Story Sequencing Activity

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Slap It!: An Odds and Evens Card Game

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

Verbs Relay Race!

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

Elevens Card Game

Looking for a cool game to help your first grader learn her 11s? Look no further than this clever one-person card game.

Consonant Blend Scavenger Hunt

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Oobleck Science: Solid or Liquid?

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Play Beanbag Letter Blend Toss

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Play the Number Line Game!

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

Exercise...with Dice!

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Basic Reading Comprehension

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Make an ALL ABOUT ME! Book

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Play Punctuation Red Light, Green Light

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Practice Reading with a Word Hunt

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Create a Sandwich Bag Explosion!

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Celebrate all your wonderful tongue taste buds with a giant paper tongue project -- you'll even get to decorate it with actual pieces of candy!

Play Egg Carton Addition

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Celery and Food Coloring Experiment

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Play Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

How Make a Pig Nose

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Play Letter-Sound Hopscotch!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for first grade reading.

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