1st Grade Activities : Page 3

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

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!

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Celebrate Ramadan by creating a crescent moon and star...out of stars! This craft is the perfect way to introduce your child to an important national symbol.

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

Any St. Patrick's Day celebration is sure to involve mischief, treats, and a whole lot of green. This leprechaun game will add a little learning to the mix.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year by creating mosaic shamrock art with your child.

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.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Reinforce your child’s foundational math skills while creating small works of seasonal art with this creative Halloween rock painting activity!

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.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.