Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 12

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Does a paper clip float? Does a sponge sink? Let your child find out! This experiment is simple science fun.

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

Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Set aside the doilies and the ribbons for a unique Valentine craft full of quirky charm.

In this variation on musical chairs, no one gets kicked "out" of the game -- instead, they get to tell other kids what to do!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Every day can be Chinese New Year with a dancing dragon that your child can make at home.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Help your child make a festive woven basket using paper bowls and yarn that is sure to please and fun to make.

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

Introduce learners to the skeletal system and create a budget-friendly Halloween craft with this paper skeleton!