1st and 2nd Grade Activities : Page 4

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Flowers will brighten up anyone's day! Share the joy of spring by making a picture of a vase with fun 3-D flowers that will never wilt.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will learn about emotions and how they change, just like many parts of nature. Then they will spend time outside, exploring and reflecting on what they have learned.

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

In this activity, your child will prepare for the first night of Passover by creating her own Seder plate.

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

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

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

In this cool science experiment, learn about magnetism and poles, and test magnet strength to find out if two magnets are twice as strong as one.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Why wait for the Easter bunny to arrive when your child can become a bunny herself? Creating a bunny mask is the perfect way to celebrate Easter.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws