Early Childhood 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!

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

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

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.

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

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

Help your preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos your child can collage a memento of home.

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

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

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.