Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 5

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

Preschoolers can ply their creativity making recycled egg carton masks in this clever eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

Shed some "light" on the Chinese culture while brightening up your home. Teach your child the Chinese character for good luck with this lantern craft.

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.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with a colorful rainbow, a pot of gold and an introduction to printmaking.

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

Halloween is approaching, so why not create some ghost flash cards that will help your child learn their numbers the spooky way?

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

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 costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Check out this interactive number line. It's a great way to strengthen your preschoolers understanding of basic numbers and the numerals that represent them.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

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

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

Create an American flag pinwheel in this Fourth of July craft activity!

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!