First Grade Holidays & Seasons Activities

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Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

This will encourage your child to utilize her observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Learn all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

Your kids will love this tradition of finding a leprechaun's gold hidden all over.

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

Remind your child of all the things that go bump, bump in the night with a fun post-Halloween activity.

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

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

All you and your kid need for this entertaining game are some conversation hearts, a candy that's practically synonymous with Valentine's Day!

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

Get ready for Halloween with a pumpkin mask! When he dons the finished mask, all his friends will squeal with Halloween-y delight.

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

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!

Coffee filter snowflakes are an easy winter craft and a good way to involve children of all ages in holiday decorating.

All your child will need are her hands to create a kooky, spooky spider. While making her spider she'll get practice both drawing and cutting out shapes.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Famous statues of gargoyles protect churches and houses all over Europe, and now your kid can have one of his own, complete with squishy tongue and bouncy arms!

Having some dancing skeletons hanging around the house is great way to prepare for All Hallows' Eve. This is a great activity for honing fine motor skills.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Little kids love this messy but fun Easter party game: bob for chocolate Easter eggs in a giant blob of whipped cream. The first one to find all her eggs wins!