Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 12

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Introduce shapes to art projects with this fun Valentine-themed craft.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

During Chinese New Year festivities, you see lanterns everywhere. Your child can make her very own red and gold lanterns to display at home.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

It can feel good to hit something when you're mad. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes this dough, the better these play dough cookies will taste!

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Use fun and fuzzy pipe cleaners to help your child learn how to form important letters that make up the words that are the building blocks of phonics.

Good for indoor and outdoor play, this patriotic tossing game uses lightweight pieces that can be found in almost any household.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Explore African culture by helping your child make his very own djembe drum! Help your child explore music and rhythm as he celebrates Black History Month.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

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

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

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.

Children will love this arts and crafts activity. Write an "invisible" message in white crayon, then paint over it to reveal the secret!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.