1st - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 49

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

This nutcracker soldier won't crack any nuts, but he will hide candies. Make a nutcracker soldier with your child this Christmas and have a cracking good time.

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

Cleaning can be a chore, but not with this sudsy experiment!

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

Make a unique painting while learning about sea life.

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

This science fair project idea investigates how the height at which a pendulum is released affects the length of time it continues.

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

This beautiful salad looks like a butterfly and tastes like your favorite vegetables!

Let your child add her creative touch to Cinco de Mayo celebrations by showing her how to make chili pepper napkin rings.

Help you child burn his very own CD with all of his favorite color songs to create a compilation album that is truly one of a kind.

Your child will create adorable baby footprints using his hand and fingers!

Encourage your child to create a tribute to their past, and explore future dreams and goals with this narrative assemblage.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Have you ever wondered how many numbers most people can memorize? Test your friends to find out!

Take advantage of the summer sun to make you and your child a delightfully refreshing treat--sun tea!

Discover flight initiation distance as you play around in the park with this fun bird watching project!

In this fun felt activity, a few circles of felt and a scattering of beads quickly become flowers that your child can use to decorate a barrette!

During your next craft time, strike up the band with this homemade Chinese instrument.