Preschool - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 28

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

Help your crafty kid make rocket-shaped party favors to hand out to friends and family on Independence Day!

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Have your child create her own version of an ancient Egyptian jewelry cuff similar to one that a goddess might have worn with this fun recycled craft.

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Skip the plastic eggs this Easter: make a paper mache Easter egg sculpture in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Use two toilet paper rolls to make a pair of homemade binoculars and let the games begin. Here's how:

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

Use fun and fuzzy pipe cleaners to help your child learn how to form important letters that make up the words that are the building blocks of phonics.

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

Want to add a little craftiness to preschool math? Break out the glue gun and create a button board!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Preschoolers are fascinated by how colors can be mixed to form new ones. This activity combines color mixing with the concept of melting for extra science fun.

Introduce learners to the skeletal system and create a budget-friendly Halloween craft with this paper skeleton!

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with this outdoor group ball game that's similar to Four Square.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Snowman soup is an extra special kind of hot chocolate. Make some snowman soup with your child, and let him practice measuring and mixing this holiday season.

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Your child can learn more about Vincent van Gogh's influential style of painting by creating an homage to Starry Night, one his most beloved paintings.

Who says snow globes are just for winter? Help your child create a summer version with this fun art project!