Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 15

This nature craft is a great way for your child to learn about the fall season and make a festive decoration to display in your home.

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Use this fun spin-off of Bingo to help your child practice number recognition and listening skills!

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a few riotous rounds of Hot Potato--played with a real potato!

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

A heart collage is the perfect Valentine's Day art project for your young artist. Make a heart collage this February with your child.

Make a flame-free menorah from beans, pasta, and tissue paper with this simple Hannukah craft activity! 

This flower necklace will have your child practicing patterns, repetition and tracing. Plus, it's so colorful and cute that it makes the perfect gift.

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

You kid can count from one to ten, no problem. They can even do it backward. Work on their addition and subtraction skills with this fun fruit picking activity.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Snowman soup is an extra special kind of hot chocolate. Make some snowman soup with your child, and let him practice measuring and mixing this holiday season.

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

Master reading numbers aloud with your first grader in this math card game.