Kindergarten and 1st Grade Holidays Activities

This homemade pom-pom garland requires very few materials and instantly brightens up a room with Easter-themed pastels.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

This paper heart craft is a simple Valentine's Day activity that gets kids to exercise their fine-motor skills. Make a paper heart craft with your child this February.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

This heart chain will help spread the love on Valentine's Day. Help your child make a colorful heart chain for your home or classroom this Valentine's Day.

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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.

This creepy, crawly spider fiber arts project is a great way to practice combining different materials to create an interesting work of decorative art.

Have your child create a little leprechaun to celebrate the season and create a little mischief.

In this fun science project your child will get practice following directions and getting messy as they learn all about slime!

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

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

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

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

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

This easy Halloween-themed science experiment for first-graders is perfect for chilly October afternoons or great as a Halloween party activity.

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.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

Catch the dance mash fever with this catchy and foot-tapping activity that's all about movement and Halloween fun!

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.