First grade crafts

The August art session with my little "firsties" was a HUGE success. We created "Wild About 1st Grade" self-portraits. They turned out so dang cute! It was a lot of fun to combine some guided art along with "do your own thing" directions. The bulletin board is adorable. We'll be adding their writing prompt responses to "I'm WILD About 1st Grade Because..." as soon as we finish the edit process. I created a file with the guided art directions, supply list, and writing prompts. Feel free to…

Celebrate and share was to be kind with these free writing crafts. Use this writing activity with kindergarten, first grade, or second grade students on World Kindness Day or any time of year to spread cheer and reflect on kind choices.

You will never run out of ideas with this selection of Exciting Animal Crafts for Kids! Have you ever wondered how to instill the love of animals and

Hi friends. :) I have a fun little spring adjective craft to share with you today! It's the perfect craft for a rainy day! Your kiddos will each secretly decorate their own umbrella and write clues to describe it. When everyone is finished, hang them on the board and the kids read their clues. (I hang about 10 at a time so it's not too overwhelming.) The rest of the class has to guess which umbrella belongs to each of their classmates! It's so fun and engaging - the kids forget they're even…

Fun STEM activity for outdoor play and makes a great science lesson! (Includes a printable rocket template).

The kids will have so much fun decorating and making their very own paper bag kites - just in time for spring!

The Great EGGscape Craft by Jory John is a great book for spring or Easter. The craft is easy and can be done at home!

These activities are easy for kids to do, with concepts that build their science knowledge.

Beautiful, fun-to-make pasta crafts with dyed pasta! This super pretty mosaic pasta project is a fun craft for kids of all ages!

100 Art Projects for First Grade Students. Project ideas and lesson plans include: art collages, painting, mixed media, clay and many more!

Check out these no prep writing crafts. This blog post talks about these fun and engaging writing prompts, which are ideal for Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade students. These craftivities are great for writing lessons, writing centers, or writer's workshop. They are seasonal and fun for kinder, first grade and second grade (spring, summer, fall, and winter). There are digital options too. Each craftivity is perfect for bulletin boards, as well as arts and crafts and literacy lessons…

Use flower blooms to make a DIY Garden Suncatcher Wind Chime. An easy summer kids craft on contact paper framed in Mason jar lid rings! #WelcometoNanas #WindChime #DIYSunCatcher #FlowerCraft

Looking for some fresh and fun ideas for your unit on time? Check out some of these cute cut and paste crafts! Get your students making clocks and turn it into a cool bulletin board display or create a set of pyramids, ordering different units of time! Great for 1st and 2nd graders, fits well into any unit on telling time. 1st grade time worksheets, 2nd grade time worksheets. Time math crafts. Make a clock worksheet. Make a clock activity.

Growing Rainbow Experiment This experiment gives plenty of observation time as kiddos watch 2 sides of a rainbow grow together and make one big rainbow! Find more about this experiment here! Material ready! Kiddos will love working with the markers! Draw a rainbow on each side of the towel! Don't leave too much space between the 2 rainbows or they may not 'grow together' well. Fold the coffee filter. Put each side in a cup with a bit of water. Then it's observation time! This would also be a…

We've been spending lots of time in the garden, and with Earth Day just around the corner, these seeds bombs are the perfect activity

This would be a fun thing for kids to pass out to their classmates at the beginning of school! These monster bookmarks are so easy to make and make a great back to school craft for kids!

Make this adorable cactus handprint card with our free printable template! You only need paper and a few other supplies to make it.

Create stunning tin foil art with your kids using a simple technique with aluminum tinfoil to make beautiful designs from flowers to animals.