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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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Questions, Anyone? Ask Your Way to Reading Comprehension

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Make Your Own Piñata!

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.

Create a Shoebox Habitat

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Practice Reading with Newspaper "Highlights"

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective

Here's a writing activity that helps first graders explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Make a Story with Magnetic Words

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with her very own story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Make a Sparkly Pipe Cleaner Crown

Is your princess missing a crown? Look no further: grab a few sparkly pipe cleaners and twist for a crown that's half jewelry, half sculpture, and 100% shine.

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.

"Oil Painting" for First Grade Scientists

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

100 Words: Word Building

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Compound Word Art

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Weight Wonders: Big and Light...Heavy and Small?

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Play the Shape Twister Game

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Make a Paper Bag Costume

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Sinking Ships for Science

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Play Four Square!

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with this outdoor group ball game that's similar to Four Square.

Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Play Nursery Rhyme Madlibs!

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Play Post-It Bingo!

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Draw a Fairy Tale Map

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Play Pennies, Dimes, Dollar!

This 100th Day of School, have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Flashlight Science: Transparent or Opaque?

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

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