Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 11

During this chilly winter season, try this fun indoor craft with your preschooler to help him explore art concepts like shape, form and texture.

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

Boost shape recognition with this matching game where your child will pair up sticks to create simple shapes.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by making a unique work of art using 100 colorful pom poms in this fun kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

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.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Your child will "build" a snowman and lace her way around the paper plates, boosting her manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Here's a quick and easy recipe for homemade play dough that doesn't involve any cooking! This bright and colorful modeling clay makes a great instant toy!

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Create a fun fall leaf rubbing with your child to explore shapes and textures this fall.

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

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.