Kindergarten Activities : Page 14

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

Your child can create his own colorful leprechaun paper bag puppet for St. Patrick's Day in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

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.

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

Practice counting with this winter kindergarten art project! As your child sculpts a clay igloo, he will work on math and dexterity and learn about snow.

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this hands-on lesson in how all of us are more alike than different, especially on the inside.

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.

Playhouses can be expensive, and they take up so much space. Why not make your own collapsible playhouse instead?

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

Is your kindergartener getting tired of the standard art supplies? How about making a mosaic? This recipe is kinder safe, no broken glass involved!

Learning to count can be pretty tough. Have your child play this game with you or a friend and watch her quickly become a master counter.

Your child can get out the acrylic paints and create a colorful paperweight perfect for dad this Father's Day!

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Help your kid get in touch with their wild side with this Big Bad Wolf mask! Bring this fairy tale villain to life with simple crafting supplies.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Use watercolors and crayons to teach your child about resistance while she creates a beautiful Easter decoration with this festive craft.

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.

Play this fun matching game with your kindergartener! It's a great way to practice math and number skills with playing cards.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Forget the package! Make your own delicious jello treat at home with your child. This healthy snack is just as tasty to eat as it is fun to play with!