Activities : Page 24

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.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Valentine bookmarks make reading lovely. Make a valentine bookmark that looks like a heart-filled bookworm.

These spaghetti ornaments take seconds to make and are a great addition to a tree, gift or window.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

Which public places harbor the most bacteria and germs? Test different environments to find out where the most bacteria live in this science project.

This science fair project demonstrates the principles of reflection through simple experiments involving mirrors and light.

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

The goal of this project is to create an exciting topographical map out of dough.

Celebrate Read Across America with a Dr. Seuss-themed craft: make a paper plate elephant ears costume modeled after Horton from Horton Hears a Who!

Turn an empty cereal box into a teacher appreciation card in this eco-friendly craft project! 

Introduce your young artist to this art form with this fun and creative activity, which blends arts and crafts with patterning for hidden math practice!

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

In this cool sound resonance experiment, learn about frequency and pitch, and use a tuning fork to calculate sound velocity in air.

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

In this enlightening transpiration experiment, kids will explore how the loss of water from plants through transpiration contributes to the water cycle.

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Let your kid try his hand at engineering as he builds and tests two different structures made out of rolled newspaper. Which one is the strongest?

Explore African culture by helping your child make his very own djembe drum! Help your child explore music and rhythm as he celebrates Black History Month.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

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!

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

Discover that the absorbency of fabrics depend largely on the shape and structure of the individual fibers that make up the fabric.

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!