Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 5

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Lots of kids wonder what it would be like to be a police officer. Celebrate the people who help keep our communities safe with this fun craft.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Your child will have a blast developing their fine motor skills and working on shape recognition with this bright and cheery crab decoration.

Explore emotions through songs and crafts in this social emotional learning activity. In this activity, your child will play an emotions guessing game and create a kaleidoscope of emotions.

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

Play this game that lets you create your own silly monster drawing and helps your child practice her counting skills!

Your child will love these Easter eggs with a soft touch. There are lots of skills at work here, including fine motor, measuring, and patterning!

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Hop over to the craft table and make this easy bunny puppet!

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Want to build some homemade instruments? These maracas make a racket, and they couldn't be easier to make...

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

In this fun science project your child will get practice following directions and getting messy as they learn all about slime!