1st Grade Activities : Page 15

Here's a simple math activity that has your child using her basic addition facts to solve a secret code.

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

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:

Make these crazy shaped bubbles from simple items in the kitchen, and teacher your kids to experiment and hypothesize. Here's how:

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

The perfect activity for a rainy day, or any time your little one moans, "Moooo-oom, there's nothing to do!"

Instead of heading to the craft store, take a step back in time and restock your art supply with this easy recipe for homemade ink.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Invite your first grader to play with his food! He will improve his fine motor skills as he creates zany edible art!

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

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

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

It's easy to be a master Italian chef with this target practice game played with a pizza board constructed out of felt and Velcro bean bag "toppings."

This St. Patrick's Day show your child to the fun of resist painting. It's as simple as getting out a crayon and some watercolor paints!

Delicious nachos are easy and fun to make any day of the week. Here's how to master this easy nacho recipe.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Using paper plates, have the kids make these fun animal masks and your house will be transformed into a jungle.

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

Add a flourish of flowers to your dining table with simple and creative sponge art!

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Prepare for school the washi tape way with some washi tape school supplies!

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Reflect on how fast your child has grown this past year with this ruler frame craft, perfect for gift-giving!