Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 12

Hand-painted pottery is the perfect way to add a bit of decoration to your potted plants.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

Explore African culture by helping your child make his very own djembe drum! Help your child explore music and rhythm as he celebrates Black History Month.

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Try a little eco-friendly crafting this Easter: turn lonely, misfit socks into bunny sculptures in this recycled arts and crafts activity.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity and surprise someone special on May Day with a homemade basket of pretty tissue paper blooms.

Let your child set her artistic talent free with an easy, environmentally-friendly bottle cap mosaic.

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

Want to build some homemade instruments? These maracas make a racket, and they couldn't be easier to make...

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

A serape is a long, blanket-like shawl worn over the shoulders. With a few simple materials, your child can fashion his very own serape!

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

this mosaic-inspired activity uses kid-friendly yarn and glue to help your kindergarten kid design her own vibrant, brightly-colored flower.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

Shed some "light" on the Chinese culture while brightening up your home. Teach your child the Chinese character for good luck with this lantern craft.