1st Grade Activities : Page 4

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

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

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

This St. Patrick's Day have your little mischief-maker create a simple leprechaun disguise that's sure to inspire a some good-hearted giggling.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

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.

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.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

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

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

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.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year by creating mosaic shamrock art with your child.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

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.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

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

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

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

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

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

Kids make a cute pipe cleaner bumble bee craft and learn a few interesting bee facts along the way in this spring-themed arts and crafts activity.

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.

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

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.