Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 60

This engaging outdoor game is a blind obstacle course to help your Kindergarten aged child learn to follow directions.

Explore the color orange with your preschooler by creating an edible picture using orange foods.

In this activity, your child will learn how slowing down and using mindfulness can help us be more aware of others' needs. They will also draw a picture of a time when they made a healthy and helpful choice.

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

Make ghost decorations for Halloween! They're made out of paper towels and are a cinch to create!

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Try a little eco-friendly crafting this Easter: turn lonely, misfit socks into bunny sculptures in this recycled arts and crafts activity.

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

Celebrate the popular holiday Diwali with a craft! Make a homemade diya lamp to welcome light over darkness.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Kids will love this more challenging version of tag where they'll have to run while "attached" to someone else.

Want to help your child develop stronger numeracy skills and make your dice games even more fun? Try creating some googly-eyed funny dice.

Watch the pop of complementary colors while creating a fun and beautiful collage you can create from magazine clippings.

Help your preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos your child can collage a memento of home.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

Traditionally, lovespoons were made by suitors to give to their love interests. Have your kid make his own love spoons this Valentine's Day!

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

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

This handprint angel adds some sparkle to Christmas. Watch as your child's handprints turn into beautiful angel wings.

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

Let your child celebrate the season with this recycled craft that turns paper tubes into sweet reindeer ready to be filled with holiday goodies.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

Let your child explore the concept of sculpture with marshmallows and pretzels to form an edible sculpture!

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Encourage your child's inner architect with a shoebox creation that he can craft into his dream house, mansion or palace.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Could your child’s room use a little bit more firecracker sparkle? Add an explosion of glow-in-the-dark color with this spectacular mason jar craft.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler create her own window mural with simple tempera paints and paintbrushes.

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.