Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 8

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Teach your child about the importance and peacefulness of Ramadan as she gets creative drawing domes, minarets and prayer halls.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

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

Make a clever egg pop-up card for Easter that hides a special surprise: open the flaps, and out pops a fluffy baby chick!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.