Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 6

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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

Sweets are for the sweet, but this pretty frame will last longer than a box of chocolates.

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!

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

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

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

This St. Patrick's-themed color game reinforces your kindergartener's recognition of green objects, and also gives her reading and listening skills a work out.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Use these pretty egg carton flowers to decorate a spring table. They don't require water, they'll never wilt, and they're perfect for Easter.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will go on a nature scavenger hunt to look for patterns in nature and appreciate how amazing nature is.

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

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.

Make Valentine's Day breakfast special with this 'hearty' egg and toast recipe. This Valentine's Day breakfast gets a special twist with a heart-shaped egg.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

A homemade coat of arms is a great way to get your child thinking about your family's values, and it makes a fun addition to the costume box as well!

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