Kindergarten and 1st Grade Activities : Page 9

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

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

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

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

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

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

Kids can put old magazines and unwanted clothing to good use by creating an Earth Day-themed multimedia collage in this eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

Kids can celebrate Veterans Day by making a mosaic American flag out of jelly beans in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

Lots of kids wonder what it would be like to be a police officer. Celebrate the people who help keep our communities safe with this fun craft.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

Create a little magic with this special craft that transforms a regular paper tree into a Valentine masterpiece.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Simon Says is a classic outdoor game that young children love. Promote your child's development and improve listening skills by playing the game in a new way.

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

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

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

These gorgeous emerald green cupcakes can be topped with a taffy rainbow and marshmallow fluff clouds for extra luck.

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.