Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 18

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

Drift away with this charming craft that lets your child create a paper hot air balloon or two.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

This hands-on activity that involves arranging pieces of yarn will teach your pre-K child the concept of ordering items by length in an interesting way.

A fingerprint heart is a lovely craft for little hands to make on Valentine's Day. Create a glittering fingerprint heart with your child this Valentine's Day.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.

Have your preschooler lend a hand when it comes to the Easter decorations by making this adorable popcorn lamb.

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Have your child create and decorate a paper plate frisbee that will keep them occupied for hours on end.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

Make homemade potpourri out of roses with your child!

In this activity, your child will learn and teach someone else five finger breathing, and they will also draw a picture of their experience.

Check out this simple version of a pairs game that's played all over the world. It's a great way to practice estimating and predicting mathematical outcomes.

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!