1st Grade Activities : Page 8

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!

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!

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Celebrate Easter brunch with these flaky, delicious, and--yes--healthy whole wheat "bunny biscuits."

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Hand-painted pottery is the perfect way to add a bit of decoration to your potted plants.

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

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.

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

Shed some "light" on the Chinese culture while brightening up your home. Teach your child the Chinese character for good luck with this lantern craft.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will go on a nature scavenger hunt to look for patterns in nature and appreciate how amazing nature is.

Help your second grader embrace his "green" side by recycling empty citrus peels into fruity ice cream bowls!

Invite the hungry caterpillar over to your house by creating a larger-than-life, colorful caterpillar friend out of balloons!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.