Kindergarten and 1st Grade Reading Activities

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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:

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.