Preschool - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 11

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

Valentine's Day is a great day to show loved ones how much you appreciate them, and this love bug craft is an adorably simple way to spread the love.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

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

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

Your child will boost her gross motor skills as she has fun playing with your easy-to-make and totally safe dart board and dart balls.

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.

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

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

This St. Patrick's-themed color game reinforces your kindergartener's recognition of green objects, and also gives her reading and listening skills a work out.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

In this science fair project, kids will be able to see where germs reside on their hands while gaining insight into the benefits of thorough hand washing.

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

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!

Use these pretty egg carton flowers to decorate a spring table. They don't require water, they'll never wilt, and they're perfect for Easter.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.