Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 7

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Make a clever egg pop-up card for Easter that hides a special surprise: open the flaps, and out pops a fluffy baby chick!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

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

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Celebrate African-American history with your child by cooking up peanut soup, a dish rooted in African-American culture.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Egg cartons are known to have abundant uses. As you get into the cold winter months, discuss penguins with your child by creating these adorable egg carton penguins!

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

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

Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this hands-on lesson in how all of us are more alike than different, especially on the inside.

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

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help him learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

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

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

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