1st - 5th Grade Activities : Page 112

Children learn about the benefits of mindfulness, teach someone else what they've learned, and create a sand timer to use during mindfulness practice.

To help your child shake the big number blues, here's a handy strategy to make your child a place value pro!

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen his ability to work with and interpret data in various forms.

Children will reflect on the importance of diversity and brainstorm ways to support people in their community who may feel alone, researching local organizations that strive to help those people.

Use this fun math board game to improve your first grader's confidence with addition facts.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

This science fair project idea explores if the length of the string that an object is suspended on has an effect on how fast or slow it swings.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Make a campfire crown, complete with roasted marshmallows!

Patterns are everywhere. This activity allows your child to practice inventing their own patterns while creating a portrait of a pet.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will write loving kindness notes to place around the home to serve as a reminder (for themselves and others) to see the goodness within themselves.

In this fun art exercise, kids practice seeing multiple shapes and colors inside a water-filled glass and recreate them as a still life using colored paper.

Is your child missing a friend or family member that's away at college, far from home, or in the hospital? This cute gift box says "Wish you were here!"

Help your kid celebrate Valentine's Day and keep up with her homework with this butterfly pencil craft!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will listen to their favorite song and explore how it makes them feel. Then, together you will craft your own cardboard radio!

In this activity, your child will hear a story and practice mindful breathing. They will paint a picture that reminds them to bring mindfulness and kindness to their puppy mind.

In this activity, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to reading and writing.

Make a beautiful bowl out of printed lines of poetry that you can use to store everything from jewelery to candy.

Demonstrate how to tell the age of an egg without having to crack it open.

Celebrate Veterans Day with your child by helping them create and send a well-deserving veteran a "thank you" card via the U.S. Veteran's Affairs Department.

Candy cane cookies are a great alternative to traditional candy canes, and your family will have a blast making them over the holidays!

Give a holiday greeting that everyone will remember by making this tactile card with your child this year.

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

This simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

Give Hallmark a run for its money with these handmade printed cards.