Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 15

Button art gets your child to make a pretty silhouette out of buttons. Make button art on Valentine's Day and any craft-filled day you'd like.

What lives in the darkest, deepest waters of the ocean? Let your child's imagination go vividly wild while creating brilliant fish using their fingerprints!

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Here's a color matching game that is perfect for winter! Your child will race against the clock to assemble the name of a color with its matching parts.

Little kids love this messy but fun Easter party game: bob for chocolate Easter eggs in a giant blob of whipped cream. The first one to find all her eggs wins!

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Celebrate the 100th Day of School by making a collage frame that can showcase your childâs favorite piece of art.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

There's something magical about bubbles. Here's a way to turn an old favorite into something new, by ditching that plastic wand for a homemade bubble pipe.

Your child can decorate her own set of Russian nesting dolls in this easy felt craft.

Pasta makes a good dinner, but it can also be used to teach proper letter formation! In this easy crafts activity, you'll use pasta and glue to form letters.

If you are looking for a special way to celebrate dad on his day, help your little one to design a creative letter photo collage.

It's a race against time to see how quickly she can color match and correctly place all of the water beads!

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Use this fun spin-off of Bingo to help your child practice number recognition and listening skills!

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Heart hair clips give your sweetheart a sweet style upgrade. These heart hair clips are perfect for Valentine's Day or anyday that needs a little extra love.

Turn printed family photos into a sturdy "flash card" game to help your child learn the names and faces of near and distant relatives.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Assist your kindergartener in constructing his own shy little magic turtle out of just a plastic cup, tube sock, and wooden dowel.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!