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First Grade Paper & Glue Crafts Activities

Paper and glue go together like peanut butter and jelly for most kindergarteners. Add some academic learning to craft time with these kindergarten paper and glue crafts and activities. Each activity features a description, materials list and step by step tutorial. Whether you are teaching time, telling stories or celebrating a holiday, these activities are age appropriate and created by educational professionals for your kindergartener.

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Paper & Glue Crafts

Patriotic Pinwheel

This hands-on activity uses just a few ordinary supplies to create an extra-fun 4th of July craft.

A Martin Luther King Day Project

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

Make an ALL ABOUT ME! Book

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

Halloween Ghost Craft

It's a great time for family crafts. Here's a ghost Halloween decoration you and your child can make together.

Make Your Own Watercolor Wrapping Paper

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

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.

Valentine's Day Flowers

You don't need a garden to enjoy flowers. This first grade activity let's you make a lovely bouquet for Valentine's Day

How to Make a Paper Snowflake

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

Craft a Japanese Fan!

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

Make a Paper Bag Book

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!

Make Your Own Computer Costume!

Save some money this Halloween and work out fine motor skills by helping your child make his very own computer costume.

Holiday Greeting Cards

Holiday greeting cards let your child express his holiday cheer and have fun crafting. Make a set of holiday greeting cards with your kid this holiday season.

DIY Decorating: Family Tree Nametags

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Make a Paper Bag Costume

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Make Your Own Postcard

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding him in creating his very own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

How to Make a Homemade Book

Encourage your first grader to uncover her imagination and storytelling skills by authoring her very own book.

Homemade Christmas Crackers

Homemade Christmas crackers add some bang to your holiday celebration. Make a set of homemade Christmas crackers with your child this holiday season.

Envelope Scrapbook

Get your first grader to help you with scrapbooking by showing him how to use multiple envelopes to create an accordion-style photo book.

Go On a Paint Chip Picture Walk

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! He'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Get Your Head in the Clouds

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Make Your Own Piñata!

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

Make a Career Book!

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Paper Plate Phonics

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.

Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective

Here's a writing activity that helps first graders explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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