1st Grade Activities : Page 5

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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

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.

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

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

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.

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

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

Little kids love this messy but fun Easter party game: bob for chocolate Easter eggs in a giant blob of whipped cream. The first one to find all her eggs wins!

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

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

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.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

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.

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

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

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

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Your child's painted handprint helps create a lucky bearded leprechaun to bring a smile to everyone celebrating St. Patrick's Day!