Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 5

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

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

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

In this art project, eight petals of a flower are painted in watercolor paint using different techniques, colors, and patterns.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

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

This Easter, try putting on a guided family scavenger hunt to help your kindergartener track down the Easter eggs.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Make a rainbow chain for St. Patrick's day to introduce your child to Roy G. Biv.

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Flowers will brighten up anyone's day! Share the joy of spring by making a picture of a vase with fun 3-D flowers that will never wilt.

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

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

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will learn about emotions and how they change, just like many parts of nature. Then they will spend time outside, exploring and reflecting on what they have learned.

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

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

In this activity, your child will prepare for the first night of Passover by creating her own Seder plate.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.