Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 44

Introduce colors to shadow play with this creative and irresistible science activity!

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

Have your child imitate the masters or create her own work of art with a bar of soap!

In this activity, you and your child will read a story about heartfulness, practice heartfulness by sending kind wishes to others, and draw pictures of those you both love and care for (such as family members, friends, or pets).

Warm up your little one's counting skills with this adorable winter number-match game. Play until she's warmed up and ready to count all on her own!

Here's a festive, patriotic 4th of July fruit platter that is healthy, delicious, and guaranteed to be a real crowd pleaser.

Get in the Halloween spirit with these simple, silly bat decorations!

Arrange a cluster of glittering pumpkins on your dining table or use them as individual place cards to add a little sparkle to your next fall party.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Do you want your child to remember time spent with loved ones and the satisfaction of giving a gift with real meaning? Try making these tasty treats!

Ignite your kindergartener's creativity by showing her how to recreate her favorite Christmas symbol - the Christmas tree - out of tissue paper!

This arts and crafts activity will help your kindergartener with shape and color recognition.

Teach your child how to make a Georgia O'Keefe flower collage using pasta and paint for a fun art activity.

Weave a unique ribbon pattern! This fun arts and crafts activity is a great way to make colorful projects and learn basic math and art skills.

Traditionally, lovespoons were made by suitors to give to their love interests. Have your kid make his own love spoons this Valentine's Day!

This twist on the same old Hide and Seek is a great weekend or rainy-day activity.

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

Help your child add her own silly charm to a pair of traditional chopsticks.

Teach your child the colors of the rainbow while creating an impressive treat that will brighten up the whole kitchen.

This first grade addition math game helps your child use critical thinking skills while practicing his computation.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Help your child master shape recognition by creating some funky topiary trees.

Stringy orange ghoul guts are actually a healthy and gross-looking appetizer for your child's Halloween party.

Craft a winter words alphabet book to celebrate this chilly season in this preschool-kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Every kid loves the excitement of waiting for a special letter or package in the mail. Now they'll be able to have their very own mailbox!

Kids in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school will love turning flower pots into homemade musical instruments in this fun and simple activity.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Does your child long to be the next Captain Hook? This great craft activity will provide an invaluable accessory for any costume box: a pirate hook!