Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 20

This construction paper activity helps your child to assemble a variety of emotions on a face so she can recognize how she and everyone around her is feeling.

Create a crafty porcupine with your first grader, and use the opportunity to teach your little one about it's ingenious (yet painful!) defense mechanism.

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

Give a holiday greeting that everyone will remember by making this tactile card with your child this year.

this mosaic-inspired activity uses kid-friendly yarn and glue to help your kindergarten kid design her own vibrant, brightly-colored flower.

When itâs too warm to ice skate or too cold to roller skate or you simply want an anytime, indoor activity, set up a wax paper skating rink.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

This goofy pasta clown sculpture will help your child develop his small muscle skills and think creatively while decking it out with a colorful circus outfit.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Make a candy wrapper collage with your leftover candy wrappers! This candy wrapper collage is a cool, upcycled post-Halloween craft project.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

This made-for-kids embroidery project uses thick yarn, dull needles, and burlap fabric with wide holes so it's perfect for little fingers!

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

The Egg in a Basket, a traditional British breakfast component, is a simple snack that kids and parents can cook together!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Playing doctor is not only fun, it's also a way to teach kids about the parts of the body and how they are spelled.

Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills

Satisfy your child's love of the game with a paper project starring his favorite pigskin!

Does your child still want to play in the snow, even after he has to come inside? In this activity you'll build a snowman indoors!