Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 8

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own home!

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

In this fun activity, kids learn how to make their own bravery badges so they can be brave anytime they want.

This fun, addition focused take on the classic card game War is a great way to help your child get a strong hold on addition.

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

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

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

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

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

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.

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

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

This imaginative shape activity will introduce your kindergartener to the world of shape and color while building basic math skills.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

This Valentine's Day, learn a little more about the organ that keeps everything in your body going--the heart!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Get your preschooler ready for kindergarten by helping them learn numbers 1-10 with homemade snowflake counting cards in this arts and crafts activity.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

Let your child experience the fun of collage art while jumping into a little bee science with this bee-utiful busy bee craft.

Put your individual fingerprint on the 100th Day of School (literally!) with this activity.