Search 1st Grade Math Hands-on Activities

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

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.

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

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!

It’s the season for falling leaves, fall colors, and corn! Use this easy activity to help your child make some amazing paintings. They can use their math skills to design patterns for cards, paper, presents and more!

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

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.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

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

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.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Practice addition with your child in a whole new way when you battle to defend your cards in this competitive game. Math has never been so fun!

Shake those dice and try to roll big numbers in this first grade math game. Practice addition in a new, fun way!

This countdown to Christmas craft is fun for kids who are excited for the holiday. Countdown to Christmas with this fun holiday activity.

Find sums of 10 in this fun first-grade math card game that helps kids build addition skills. Help your child use critical thinking skills to find the sums.