Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 4

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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

Why wait for the Easter bunny to arrive when your child can become a bunny herself? Creating a bunny mask is the perfect way to celebrate Easter.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

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

This project commemorates the milestone of completing the first 100 days of school, while giving your child a manipulative to practice counting to 100.

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

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Celebrate the coming of Spring and Earth Day with this 3-D art project that makes use of recycled materials.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Do you need to help your students chill out? This activity will help your students learn how to breathe deeply, self-soothe, and calm themselves down.