Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 40

Every kid loves the excitement of waiting for a special letter or package in the mail. Now they'll be able to have their very own mailbox!

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

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 can create a toy soap sure to provide bath time fun for himself or, when given as a gift, a friend!

Your kindergartener can contribute these beaded napkin rings to your Thanksgiving table...and sneak in some good math patterning practice, too.

Want a fun way to teach your kid to tell time? Making a plate clock is a great way for him to learn how to tell time in a way he'll actually find exciting.

Learn how to make vampire fangs for Halloween costumes and for scary playtime. See how to make vampire fangs with this great upcycled tutorial.

Get your kindergartener storytelling in this arts and crafts activity by making Character Cubes that'll help improve your child's reading and writing skills.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

Help your child explore their imagination and self-image with a larger-than-life-size self-portrait!

Help your child make sense of our colorful world with this easy-to-make color challenge!

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

Make sweet personalized invitations for a laid-back pumpkin carving party.

Bring the rich history of Thanksgiving to life with a quirky and sweet paper plate craft.

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

Create striking pieces of art using handmade heart stencils in this hands-on Valentine's Day arts and crafts activity!

Let your child be a designer for the day with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a felt pillow decorated with colorful felt cut-outs.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Help your first grader get started making this watering can that's filled with homemade flowers. It will brighten up any window sill ... and it's eco-friendly!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Make healthy eating a manageable (and yummy) task for your kindergartener by encouraging her to help you make a healthy apple sauce snack!

Here's an arts and crafts activity that has your first-grader or second-grader using crayons and black paint to create a beautiful wax-resist nightscape.

This uniquely cute Easter bunny craft will give your child practice tracing his handprint while repurposing a paper plate as the base for his bunny.

Help your child reinforce the order of the alphabet with this hands-on activity using some everyday materials. It's a fun way to put a spin on a timeless skill.

Want to capture this year? Make a time capsule of this period in your child's life! You may just be surprised at what you find, when you dig it up next year...

In the mood for a silly treat full of sweet goodness and winter-themed fun?

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

Your first grader will love showcasing his favorite pieces of art with his very own personalized magnets created from old bottle caps!

Famous statues of gargoyles protect churches and houses all over Europe, and now your kid can have one of his own, complete with squishy tongue and bouncy arms!