1st Grade Activities : Page 3

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

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

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

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

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

Set your child's creative spirit free with heart art! He'll experiment placing hearts in patterns, designs, and configurations to make this 'heartfelt' art.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

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

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

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

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

Make a clever egg pop-up card for Easter that hides a special surprise: open the flaps, and out pops a fluffy baby chick!

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

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