Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 5

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

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Take math off the page and into the real world. This simple game gives kindergarten kids hands-on practice with basic addition.

Who said snow globes have to be round and made of glass? Here’s our take on this holiday favorite, using paper and plastic.

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

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

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.

Create a little magic with this special craft that transforms a regular paper tree into a Valentine masterpiece.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

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.

This reindeer hat is cute and festive for your child during the holiday season. Make a reindeer hat this Christmas with your child.

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Show your kindergartener how to craft a pretty Mother's Day jewelry box that's fit for the baubles of a queen (or at least an extra special mom)!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

Crafting a valentine mailbox is the perfect way to get your child ready for Valentine's Day. Now no heartfelt mail will get lost in the shuffle!

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

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