Elementary School Back to School Activities

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your child put together his own "Back to School" scrapbook.

This colorful foam pencil topper will glam up any boring pencil and is guaranteed to add personality to any pencil case!

It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.

For kids who prefer to do homework flopped on a rug, this practical caddy can make all the difference!

This is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

Using only straight-line sewing, your fourth can create a nifty felt pencil case perfect for his busy life.

Prepare for school the washi tape way with some washi tape school supplies!

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

Here's a homemade bulletin board project to help your fourth grader's school year start off right.

This school year, have your child decorate his very own clip board and watch him do his homework in style!

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Looking for a customized locker accessory? Try this DIY Mirror Craft and spruce up a plain old mirror with some original designs.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Instead of tossing old school supplies, turn them into a work of art and teach your kids how to find new uses for old things.

Keep school day sniffles at bay with a simple felt tissue cozy that fits neatly in a 3-ring binder.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

As school starts, there's no better time to get your kid off to a fresh, fun, organized start. Here's a desk craft for style-minded students!