1st and 2nd Grade Activities : Page 17

This watercolor landscape creates the background for the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood by using spooky silhouettes for the characters.

If you are looking for a special way to celebrate dad on his day, help your little one to design a creative letter photo collage.

Make exercise fun for your child with this energetic fitness game that's a cross between a cake walk and musical chairs.

Try your hand at some Seuss-like tongue twisters! Boost those vocabulary skills with this fun game for the whole family.

Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with a colorful rainbow, a pot of gold and an introduction to printmaking.

In this activity, your child will make her own book of Swahili numbers filled with pictures of animals found throughout Africa.

Teach your child about the importance of Labor Day by helping her learn about the different hats that are worn by workers in various occupations.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Can you imagine a sky filled with bright, colorful bubbles? Make this whimsical scene come alive with bubble science!

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

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

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

What lives in the darkest, deepest waters of the ocean? Let your child's imagination go vividly wild while creating brilliant fish using their fingerprints!

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

In this science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

Help your child observe Veterans Day by having him create a paper chain American flag; it's a fun and crafty way to show your patriotism.

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

Create a little magic with this special craft that transforms a regular paper tree into a Valentine masterpiece.

Your youngster can explore the parts of a face while creating this ghoulish Halloween zombie head sandwich!

It's important to be able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the perfect way to practice.

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

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.