1st Grade Activities : Page 7

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

This fun project will showcase spring's freshest flowers and help your child contribute to the Passover Seder.

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

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

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

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Help you child learn the colors of the rainbow and paint them in order by making a beautiful rainbow pot.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

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

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Explore emotions through songs and crafts in this social emotional learning activity. In this activity, your child will play an emotions guessing game and create a kaleidoscope of emotions.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

Spice up your first grader's spelling practice this Presidents Day by playing the Abraham Lincoln Penny Spelling game!

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

Pureed ripe peaches, vanilla yogurt, agave nectar, and juicy chunks of peach come together to form a refreshing pop that hits the spot on a hot summer day.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Nothing says party like a bright and bursting piÃata! Create your own mini festive centerpiece with paper towel rolls and ribbons.

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.