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Activities for 6-year-olds

Printable worksheets and hands-on learning activities for 6-year-olds (first grade). Every activity explains what children learn, what you need and how to run it, with ideas to make it easier or harder.

13 activities

Age 6 10 min

Shoe Tying Certificate

Celebrate learning to tie shoes independently with a certificate to fill in with the child’s name and date.

Award certificate

Age 6 25 min

Fall Scavenger Hunt

Explore an outdoor space and mark nine fall treasures as you find them.

Scavenger hunt

Age 6 25 min

Animal Syllable Dice Game

Make an animal die, roll it and clap once for each syllable in the animal’s name.

Roll and play

Age 6 20 min

Year-End Number Bingo 1 to 20

Play bingo with two number cards and calling cards. A fun way to recognize numbers from 1 to 20.

Bingo

Age 6 20 min

Community Helpers

Look at a city scene and imagine the work of a firefighter, mail carrier, police officer, baker, and doctor. Talk about what each person does and what might happen next.

Picture talk