Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 7

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card your child can make, write, and give. Great learning and lots of fun--a "lucky" combination for a lucky holiday!

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

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

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.

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

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

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

Honor our 16th president by having your kid assemble his famous stovepipe hat! This Abe Lincoln hat craft is the perfect way to celebrate Presidents Day.

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

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a few riotous rounds of Hot Potato--played with a real potato!

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

Your child will love these Easter eggs with a soft touch. There are lots of skills at work here, including fine motor, measuring, and patterning!

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math 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!

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.