Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 80

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Kids will love this more challenging version of tag where they'll have to run while "attached" to someone else.

Using hard boiled eggs, leaves and tempera paint, your child can create a delicate garden print decoration on Easter eggs.

Call in your crafty kids to help make this homemade air freshener, perfect for stowing in the backseat to keep your ride smelling fresh and clean.

Want to help your child develop stronger numeracy skills and make your dice games even more fun? Try creating some googly-eyed funny dice.

As Easter approaches, it's nice to put out a few decorations that emphasize the beauty and freshness of spring. This Easter wreath is the perfect addition.

Watch the pop of complementary colors while creating a fun and beautiful collage you can create from magazine clippings.

On a hot afternoon there is nothing better than a cold drink. Instead of making lemonade, your child can have lemon ice cubes ready to munch!

Help your preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos your child can collage a memento of home.

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

Invite children to create a Fourth of July centerpiece with this simple craft activity!

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

Traditionally, lovespoons were made by suitors to give to their love interests. Have your kid make his own love spoons this Valentine's Day!

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

This handprint angel adds some sparkle to Christmas. Watch as your child's handprints turn into beautiful angel wings.

This is an easy, edible craft that your second grader is sure to enjoy!

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

Let your child celebrate the season with this recycled craft that turns paper tubes into sweet reindeer ready to be filled with holiday goodies.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

Let your child explore the concept of sculpture with marshmallows and pretzels to form an edible sculpture!

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Encourage your child's inner architect with a shoebox creation that he can craft into his dream house, mansion or palace.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Could your child’s room use a little bit more firecracker sparkle? Add an explosion of glow-in-the-dark color with this spectacular mason jar craft.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler create her own window mural with simple tempera paints and paintbrushes.

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

Try this preschool arts and crafts activity: make an over-sized stuffed plaything out of butcher paper and wadded-up newspaper.