Critical And Creative 1
From giraffes in hats to secret codes, your first grader will puzzle, plan, and imagine through 46 themed challenges that grow problem-solving, comparing, and creative thinking skills.
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Critical And Creative 1
Critical & Creative Thinking Activities: Grade 1, provides young learners with plenty of opportunities to ask questions, solve problems, and think beyond the obvious. Designed for ages 6–7, this 160-page workbook contains 46 themed units that encourage both logical reasoning and imaginative thinking.
Each three-page unit follows a simple progression. The first two pages introduce a theme through activities that encourage students to make connections, compare ideas, observe details, and explore possibilities. The final page presents a challenge that brings everything together through a riddle, code, maze, picture puzzle, or other problem-solving activity.
Themes range from holidays and fairy tales to animals, everyday objects, community locations, and familiar childhood experiences. Whether considering a new ending to a favorite story, discovering patterns in a collection of objects, or solving a themed puzzle, students are continually encouraged to look at ideas from more than one perspective.
Parent support pages provide simple guidance, and all student pages are reproducible for home use, making it easy to revisit favorite activities or provide additional practice. A complete answer key is also included.
By blending creativity with critical thinking, this workbook helps first graders strengthen observation, reasoning, problem-solving, pattern recognition, and flexible thinking skills in a format that feels more like exploration than assignment.
See the first 8 pages of this book and browse all that it has to offer.
How to Use Critical & Creative Thinking Activities – Grade 1
- Choose the pacing that works best for your family. Completing about four pages per week will comfortably finish the book during a typical school year.
- For a more cohesive approach, complete one or two full units each week. Since each unit centers on a single theme, this allows your child to stay engaged with the topic while working through the activities and final challenge.
- Feel free to adjust the schedule as needed for holidays, illness, travel, or weeks when other subjects require extra attention. The workbook is easy to pause and resume.
- Pay attention to the activities your child enjoys most. Some students gravitate toward logic puzzles and codes, while others prefer comparison activities, mazes, pattern challenges, or creative-thinking exercises.
- The themed units can be completed in order or selected to complement topics you're already studying. Either approach works well.
Whether used as a stand-alone thinking-skills program or as an occasional enrichment activity, Critical & Creative Thinking Activities provides regular practice in observation, reasoning, problem-solving, and flexible thinking.
Publisher's Information
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Author: Rachel Lynette
Age Recommendation: 6
Grade Recommendation: 1st
Faith-Based: No
Consumable: Yes (can be reproduced in your own home or classroom, but not for any commercial entity or organization)
Lessons: 46
Pages: 142
ISBN: 9781596732926
Format: Softcover
Copyright: 2009
Made in: USA
”I am such a huge fan of books and games that get your child thinking outside of the box and this book does just that.” Read the Review
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"You really can’t go wrong with Critical and Creative Thinking Activities, Grade 1! Your child will love all the activities and you’ll be amazed at all they learn."
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- September 17, 2026
jessica b.
My daughter doesn't mind doing the activities in this book. This book helps build her writing skills along with thinking skills.
- February 8, 2023
Fun
Andrea
Both my kids loved using this book. They think it's fun and they get to be creative while learning and practicing good thinking skills. My son especially fights me on a lot/most of school but RARELY fights about this and will often pick it as one of his first things to get done.
- October 17, 2022
Creative and fun
Emmy D.
This is a great book for kids to thinking critically and be creative
- September 7, 2022
Fun!
dedra m.
This book is fun for my daughter. She fights me through school work ALL THE TIME! C&C is the the one challenge she is always ready and willing to tackle. It is short, quick, and just what we needed for our homeschool days. We are continuing this workbook for the next school year.
- September 1, 2022
We love it!
Brenna W.
Critical & Creative Thinking is a fun addition to our school week. Great book!
- July 11, 2022
Very fun book
Aerie B.
My 6 year old enjoys this book. Im not sure he learned much from it but it was fun to watch his creativity come out more which I suppose is the purpose of this book. It was more of a book we would use in between hard more boring subjects to give his mind a break and let him just relax and have fun more. This book was very helpful in that aspect. I will be getting it for my younger kid when shes ready.
- July 2, 2022
Great workbook
Stephen M.
We are very satisfied with this book. It complements the rest of the curriculum very nicely.
- June 28, 2022
Fun
Ashley D.
My 1st grader likes to do this workbook. I help him spell out some of the words, its good practical writing practice.
- May 25, 2022
Fun to do as a group
Alexandra W.
I used this as an activity to do with my preschooler and 1st grader together. They took turns thinking of different answers and it was easy enough that my preschooler could have input as well. They bounced ideas off each other or helped each other out if one got stuck, which was a great experience!
- April 13, 2022
Fun
DEBORAH K.
My son loves this book. Evan moor books are a great choice anyway, but this is always a fav even if we are having an "off day".
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