1st and 2nd Grade Activities : Page 19

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Make counting coins make "cents" to your second grader while giving her the chance to practice her math skills by playing this fun game with her.

Using dried beans and corn, foods that are prevalent in Mexican cuisine, your child will create three-dimensional sombrero art.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

These DIY coasters are an easy-peasy, activity for small hands to manage, and a good way to get ready for summer, when cold drinks abound.

This simple Veterans Day craft is a great way to have your kid work on her drawing skills and put her vocabulary to the test too!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Brighten up everyone's day with this circular rainbow plate perfect for celebrating spring or St. Patrick's Day.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

In this activity, your child will learn about how focusing on positive feelings, like love and peace, helps these feelings grow. They will also decorate pots and plant seeds as a reminder of this.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

Help your first grader emboss his own design reminiscent of Middle Ages metalwork. Using foil and a wooden stylus, he'll create pretty springtime flower images.

Celebrate all your wonderful tongue taste buds with a giant paper tongue project -- you'll even get to decorate it with actual pieces of candy!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Transform your kitchen table into a winter wonderland with a cookie and cocoa party that looks freshly dusted with snow.

Make vibrant faux stained glass art inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter who explored repeating shapes using the primary colors.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Help your child rocket off for some high-flying fun with a jet pack you make from recycled materials and a few odds and ends.

Help your second grader make his own badminton set--out of your old pantyhose! He'll delight in his crafty independence, and you'll love saving money.

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

This Thanksgiving, make a pine cone turkey that can double as a personalized place setting for each family member.

This activity will keep your child entertained long after you've put away the markers and glue. Help him turn a paper bag into a self-portrait puppet!

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.