1st - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 22

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

This science fair project teaches students the differences between fruits and vegetables.

Hanukkah stamps help you decorate anything from cards to gifts to wrapping paper. Make your own Hanukkah stamps out of potatoes.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

Looking for a way to channel your spring fever? Create a beautiful spring centerpiece with your child!

Celebrate Earth Day, or any day, by recycling an old CD and make a colorful, decorative fish!

Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter. In this activity, your child can put pick up a paintbrush and create a self-portrait inspired by this renowned artist.

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Who says a party can't be productive? Next time your home is host to a hoard of giggling children, put those creative fingers to use with a party scrapbook!

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

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.

Introduce your young artist to this art form with this fun and creative activity, which blends arts and crafts with patterning for hidden math practice!

Your child will enjoy making this Easter decoration that honors the chicken. After all, chickens are the ones that actually make the Easter eggs!

Introduce your child to the concept of the melting pot by decorating a patriotic 4th of July planter.

One thing the Christmas season is known for making is yummy treats! Cookies, pies, fudges, and cakes are common desserts during Christmas time. If you want to choose a healthier option this holiday season, create a Christmas tree with fruit. It will be a

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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

Your child will "catch" snowballs with each correct math equation she can answer correctly. If she solves a problem correctly, she gets to keep the snowballs.

Celebrate the new year by making a memory book with your child! You'll reinforce time and calendar concepts and you'll get to reminisce about the past year.

Cook Halloween pasta on All Hallows' Eve. This green pasta with toothy almonds is a super scary and tasty dinner for trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.

Decorate your porch or backyard with this unique fall craft!

Create an outer space painting with chalk, water and black paper in this art project that explores the solar system.

This flower necklace will have your child practicing patterns, repetition and tracing. Plus, it's so colorful and cute that it makes the perfect gift.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

Climates with more snowfall have more coniferous forests and fewer deciduous ? Learn about how pine trees in a coniferous forest adapted to withstand snow.

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

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Invite your kid to create her own hanging dove images--a symbol of peace and unity--in honor of Black History Month.