Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 17

Looking for a cool game to help your first grader learn her 11s? Look no further than this clever one-person card game.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Craft a sparkling magic wand and let your child pretend she's a fairy, wizard, or magician!

This activity will keep your child entertained long after you've put away the markers and glue. Help him turn a paper bag into a self-portrait puppet!

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.

Here's a fun math game you can use to practice counting, addition or subtraction with your child.

This Hawaiian costume is fun for luaus, Halloween, or playtime. Make a Hawaiian costume, complete with tissue-paper lei and crepe-paper grass skirt.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

In this activity, students will learn about the meaning and information on a police badge. Then they will be able to create their own badge with their own identification.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Every day can be Chinese New Year with a dancing dragon that your child can make at home.

Bring some winter fun into your home while your child practices her number matching skills with this adorable snowman math game.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Make a gingerbread house with your kid with this tutorial. Learn how to make a gingerbread house using a milk carton, graham crackers, and frosting.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

Make a beautiful - and realistic looking - sunflower using sunflower seeds and a paper plate with this fun kindergarten arts and crafts project.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

Celebrate National Drum Month in November by using a couple of recycled yogurt cups and making a groovy set of bongos!