1st Grade Activities : Page 4

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.

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!

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Wake up and create a fun, healthy snowman with your learner! As a family, create a snowman on your plate with yogurt, add some snowman accessories, and design a snowy environment.

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!

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!

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

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?

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

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

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Penguins just may be the cutest cold-weather creatures ever! Creating this penguin is a perfect way for your tot to practice cutting out different shapes.

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

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

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

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

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

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

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.