Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 16

A heart collage is the perfect Valentine's Day art project for your young artist. Make a heart collage this February with your child.

Set your child's creative spirit free with heart art! He'll experiment placing hearts in patterns, designs, and configurations to make this 'heartfelt' art.

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

This Where the Wild Things Are costume will make your little wild thing look just like Max. This Where the Wild Things Are costume is surprisingly easy to make.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

This fun art project is a great way to introduce your child to some basic geometry.

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

Make a candy wrapper collage with your leftover candy wrappers! This candy wrapper collage is a cool, upcycled post-Halloween craft project.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

This activity will have your child cutting and gluing to his heart's content. What's more, he'll create a pretty, mixed media plate for Seder while he's at it!

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

A tisket, a tasket, here's a pretty homemade basket to fill with treats at Easter.

Using markers and construction paper, your child will design their own patterned fish.

Help your kindergartener use a map to find "leprechaun gold"--and build early social studies skills in the process!

This arts and crafts activity explores triptych painting while encouraging your preschooler to increase critical sequencing and early literacy skills.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

This collage is a great way for children to see different methods of creating the same idea.

Apple slices can turn brown, but when they are coated with lemon juice the acid keeps the apples fresh. Here's how to help your preschooler experiment:

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.