Search 1st Grade Science Arts & Crafts Hands-on Activities

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

What's cooler than an explosion? Not much! This simple science experiment lets kids build their own pop rocket. So put on your safety goggles and let her rip.

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

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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.

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.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.