1st Grade Activities : Page 2

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Why wait for the Easter bunny to arrive when your child can become a bunny herself? Creating a bunny mask is the perfect way to celebrate Easter.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Help your child make a picture of a four-leaf clover this St. Patrick's Day. It's thought that whoever finds a four-leaf clover will enjoy good luck!

Understanding emotions can be a helpful tool for self-regulation. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice identifying different emotions and explore how they connect with various gestures and facial expressions.

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!