1st and 2nd Grade Activities : Page 10

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

This simple art project will help your child think of nice words to say that come from the heart.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

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.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

Turn a boring lunch bag into a personalized suburban house. Your child will look forward to his lunch when he has the coolest bag house on the block!

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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

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.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

Make a paper floral bouquet for Mother's Day that looks as beautiful as real flowers and will last much longer!

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.