Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 5

This St. Patrick's-themed color game reinforces your kindergartener's recognition of green objects, and also gives her reading and listening skills a work out.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

Create an American flag pinwheel in this Fourth of July craft activity!

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.