Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 9

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Your child will "build" a snowman and lace her way around the paper plates, boosting her manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Celebrate African-American history with your child by cooking up peanut soup, a dish rooted in African-American culture.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

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

Egg cartons are known to have abundant uses. As you get into the cold winter months, discuss penguins with your child by creating these adorable egg carton penguins!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this hands-on lesson in how all of us are more alike than different, especially on the inside.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

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

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help him learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

Create an outer space painting with chalk, water and black paper in this art project that explores the solar system.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!