Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 6

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Make a clever egg pop-up card for Easter that hides a special surprise: open the flaps, and out pops a fluffy baby chick!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Your child will "build" a snowman and lace her way around the paper plates, boosting her manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Egg cartons are known to have abundant uses. As you get into the cold winter months, discuss penguins with your child by creating these adorable egg carton penguins!

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this hands-on lesson in how all of us are more alike than different, especially on the inside.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

A homemade coat of arms is a great way to get your child thinking about your family's values, and it makes a fun addition to the costume box as well!

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!