1st Grade Math Activities

How do you turn an everyday object into a scary skeleton? This project is the perfect way to practice counting while using cotton swabs to create a skeleton.

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

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

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

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.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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.

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

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

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Here's a salt dough recipe that can be used to make ghostly character sticks for fun Halloween decor.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

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.

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

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

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

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

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.