1st - 4th Grade Activities : Page 74

Make these muffin cup spiders from simple baking supplies to surprise your guests and make them jump!

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Delight your second grader (and his best friend!) by showing him how to make a friendship collage jar project for someone special this holiday season.

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

Introduce decimals and place value with this fun math card game for fourth grade students.

Spice up your Easter routine this year by making these stunningly sparkly eggs with your third grader. This is a great activity to do to celebrate the holiday.

In this activity, your child will use two powerful questions to investigate a thought and the truth behind it. They will write and perform a skit using mindfulness and these important questions.

Your child's painted handprint helps create a lucky bearded leprechaun to bring a smile to everyone celebrating St. Patrick's Day!

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Stay active over summer vacation with this fun take on the old favorite Red Rover!

If you love the look of yarn but aren't in the mood for complicated knitting or crocheting, have your child create simple and beautiful yarn letters.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Learn about savanna flora and fauna in this science project! Take a look at characteristics of tropical grassland plants and animals that help them survive.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

By selecting a pattern and carefully repeating it on the entire surface of a pumpkin, your child will transform a simple garden vegetable into a work of art.

Using water, corn syrup, and sequins, your child can create a unique art project while exploring what happens when different liquids are mixed together!

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

The next time you are planning a Mexican-inspired menu, let your child contribute with a batch of this guacamole! Here's how.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

Here's a wacky activity that kids are sure to love: make a face that has shoelaces for hair!

Kids get to race a felt mouse through a homemade maze using magnets in this exciting 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Use up your leftover hardboiled Easter eggs with our healthy, gourmet variations on an old classic: deviled eggs

This Santa Claus craft is made to look like the jolly holiday icon himself. Make a Santa Claus craft with your child this holiday season.

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

How much does 100 weigh? Play this fun guessing game with your child to commemorate the 100th day of school.