1st and 2nd Grade Activities : Page 3

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

In this science fair project, kids will be able to see where germs reside on their hands while gaining insight into the benefits of thorough hand washing.

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.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Understanding emotions can be a helpful tool for self-regulation. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice identifying different emotions and explore how they connect with various gestures and facial expressions.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

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.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

In this art project, eight petals of a flower are painted in watercolor paint using different techniques, colors, and patterns.