1st Grade Activities : Page 5

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.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Introduce learners to the skeletal system and create a budget-friendly Halloween craft with this paper skeleton!

Make a gingerbread house with your kid with this tutorial. Learn how to make a gingerbread house using a milk carton, graham crackers, and frosting.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

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

Tell the Purim story in a new way: By making a set of puppets out of an old deck of cards!

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

A valentine garland makes any home look more lovely on Valentine's Day. Craft a simple valentine garland with your child to add some heart to your day.

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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.

This St. Patrick's Day have your little mischief-maker create a simple leprechaun disguise that's sure to inspire a some good-hearted giggling.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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

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!

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

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.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project.