Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 32

Make sweet personalized invitations for a laid-back pumpkin carving party.

Baking these fun cookies will introduce your child to the concept of cross-sections.

While you whip up mashed potatoes for your next dinner party, your first grader and friends can stay occupied by crafting their own silly spud characters.

Mason jar lights add a bit of holiday sparkle to a bland patio or dinner table. Make some mason jar lights to add to your collection of Christmas decorations.

Show your child how to "recycle" by making a milk box toy car. Here's how to get started.

Want to add a little craftiness to preschool math? Break out the glue gun and create a button board!

Spice up your first grader's spelling practice this Presidents Day by playing the Abraham Lincoln Penny Spelling game!

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

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.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Make a brag sash with your child to celebrate an amazing school year filled with accomplishments.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

All you and your kid need for this entertaining game are some conversation hearts, a candy that's practically synonymous with Valentine's Day!

Let your preschooler feel like a real chef by helping him create his very own chef's hat!

Check out this twist on a peanut butter and banana sandwich. The banana replaces the bread to make the perfect fun and nutritious after-school snack.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

In this playful preschool arts and crafts activity, your child will create a cute and colorful caterpillar using pom-poms, googly eyes, and a clothespin.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

This pair of ice skates won't get you very far on ice, but they'll still dazzle during the coldest season of the year.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Recycle all those old puzzles with missing pieces into a cute and easy puzzle piece tree.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity: re-purpose an old t-shirt into a simple apron to use for your child's cooking and art projects.

Work on simple addition and finding even numbers in this first grade math card game.

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

Your child can celebrate Mexican culture by making his very own percussion instrument using simple materials such as paper plates and tissue paper.

Ordinal numbers, or numbers that indicate order, are the focus of this fun math game for young learners.