1st Grade Activities : Page 6

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

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.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

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.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

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

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

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

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

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

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Create an American flag pinwheel in this Fourth of July craft activity!

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

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

Create a little magic with this special craft that transforms a regular paper tree into a Valentine masterpiece.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

These gorgeous emerald green cupcakes can be topped with a taffy rainbow and marshmallow fluff clouds for extra luck.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Introduce learners to the skeletal system and create a budget-friendly Halloween craft with this paper skeleton!

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!