Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 42

Celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, by helping your child to create a papier mache shofar.

This adorable, fluffy sheep made from your child's handprint and cotton balls is the perfect craft for Easter.

In this activity, your child will learn and practice mindfulness by using their senses to focus on one thing at a time.

This beautiful salad looks like a butterfly and tastes like your favorite vegetables!

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

Make the 100th day celebration extra special by creating your own 100th Day of School Top Hat.

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

Your first grader will enjoy creating his own leprechaun from a recycled toilet paper tube.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

This arts and crafts activity will help your kindergartener with shape and color recognition.

Help you child learn the colors of the rainbow and paint them in order by making a beautiful rainbow pot.

Have your child assemble a tiny bunny that she can carry with her and pull out whenever she needs a friend.

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

These frozen banana pops are an essential summer treat! They are simple for young children to make, and so tasty they are sure to be a hit.

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

What's cooler than an explosion? Not much! This simple science experiment lets kids build their own pop rocket. So put on your safety goggles and let her rip.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

Spend an afternoon outdoors and add a personal touch to clothes or other items of fabric by learning how to tie-dye.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

Make homemade glitter to add glamor and glitz to art projects galore.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

This activity is a creative and fun way to boosts a child's motor skills while giving her a lasting toy.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Got a whistful wisher on your hands? Help her make her very own magic wand! The result is a creative craft that's great for pretend play.