1st Grade Activities : Page 3

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

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

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 goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

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

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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

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.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

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

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Do you need to help your students chill out? This activity will help your students learn how to breathe deeply, self-soothe, and calm themselves down.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.