Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 34

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

It's always fun to recycle household items into something great. Here's a quick and easy way to turn a used juice box into a police radio for hours of play!

Give your kindergartener a beautiful way to say "I love you" while giving end-of-year math and writing skills a workout!

Whether you love the sweet candy kernels or not, the vibrant colors of candy corn make them perfect for your child and his artistic talents.

This fun, summery arts and crafts activity is a great project to do with your child. She'll express her creativity while she revamps some old flip flops.

This Rudolph craft will help your kid make a goofy and memorable ornament. Make a Rudolph craft this winter to bring some added merriment to your Christmas.

Have your little cowpoke design and decorate a vest that's perfect for combating the elements on the harsh Western plains.

Help your kid get in touch with their wild side with this Big Bad Wolf mask! Bring this fairy tale villain to life with simple crafting supplies.

Kids of all ages will delight in making these jumbo "cupcake" crayons from all of the broken crayon stubs that seem to pile up around the house.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Most people throw out soaked tea bags after use, but artists know a secret--tea bags can be a great medium for creating one-of-a-kind modern art.

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

Sneak some vitamin-packed greens into your homemade popsicles for a frozen summer treat thatâs both delicious and nutritious

Create cake pops in shaped like eyeballs in this extra sweet, gross-out Halloween baking activity!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Want to make math a little more exciting? This single-player game is designed to help your child practice combining cards to create sums of 14.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

Ignite your kindergartener's creativity by showing her how to recreate her favorite Christmas symbol - the Christmas tree - out of tissue paper!

Warm up your little one's counting skills with this adorable winter number-match game. Play until she's warmed up and ready to count all on her own!

Delicious nachos are easy and fun to make any day of the week. Here's how to master this easy nacho recipe.

From Canada's flag, to the Toronto Maple Leafs, to classic maple syrup cookies, the maple tree is very much a part of Canadian heritage.

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Hanukkah gelt is a festive treat for the Festival of Lights. Make this Hanukkah gelt even more special with chocolate-dipped apricots.

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

This paper mache jack-o'-lantern is a fun craft for kids who are too young to carve a pumpkin. See your paper mache jack-o'-lantern outlast its carved peers.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.