Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 49

Make a unique painting while learning about sea life.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

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

Let your child be the king or queen of Mardi Gras by making his own shiny and spectacular Mardi Gras crown.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing an excruciating task? The key is to build up those hand muscles! This water relay race can help.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

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

Let your child add her creative touch to Cinco de Mayo celebrations by showing her how to make chili pepper napkin rings.

Help you child burn his very own CD with all of his favorite color songs to create a compilation album that is truly one of a kind.

Encourage your child to create a tribute to their past, and explore future dreams and goals with this narrative assemblage.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Express the love that you share with your child this Valentine's Day by creating unique "me and you" portraits together!

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

While building his own croquet set, your kindergartener will use both his math an fine motor skills and as he plays he'll improve his hand-eye coordination.

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

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.

If your child likes Creamsicles, he'll love this punch. With its bright orange hue, it's perfect for a Halloween party, or summer barbecue.

During your next craft time, strike up the band with this homemade Chinese instrument.

Make a paper floral bouquet for Mother's Day that looks as beautiful as real flowers and will last much longer!

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

Get started on an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos with this easy edible sugar skull project.

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!