Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 21

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

In this activity, your child will use household objects to sculpt his very own football.

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

You don't need a garden to enjoy flowers. This first grade activity let's you make a lovely bouquet for Valentine's Day

For most kids the fun is in the process, and making a dollhouse out of cardboard boxes is as creative as it gets! Here's how to make your own dollhouse.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

If your kid is fascinated by dinosaurs, show him how to make his very own dinosaur egg. When he's not looking, hide a surprise inside!

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

In this tons-of-fun reading activity, your child plans a storytime, makes a flyer, creates a coloring sheet, and hosts their own storytime.

Using only the elements in your backyard, make paintbrushes with your child and create truly homemade works of art.

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

Make a brag sash with your child to celebrate an amazing school year filled with accomplishments.

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

A candy ring is perfect for the kid with a sweet tooth and style. Make a sweet candy ring with your child this Valentine's Day.

In this spooky and colorful Halloween craft, your child will make a terrifying green monster! She'll also practice counting as she traces her fingers.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

Your kindergartener can contribute these beaded napkin rings to your Thanksgiving table...and sneak in some good math patterning practice, too.

Get oodles of noodles this year, not for dinner, but to create this funky ornament for the Christmas tree!

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

During your next craft time, strike up the band with this homemade Chinese instrument.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

In this activity, your child will make her own book of Swahili numbers filled with pictures of animals found throughout Africa.