Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 8

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Your children will squeal with delight when they discover all the mishaps that come about after a visit from the leprechaun.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Get kids to celebrate Earth Day by designing their very own junk truck.

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

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Watch your first grader marvel at how fun and simple it is to turn ordinary potatoes into custom shamrock stamps.

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

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Review fractions with your budding mathematician when you play this fun, educational math board game.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

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

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Skip the plastic eggs this Easter: make a paper mache Easter egg sculpture in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

This heart chain will help spread the love on Valentine's Day. Help your child make a colorful heart chain for your home or classroom this Valentine's Day.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

A heart collage is the perfect Valentine's Day art project for your young artist. Make a heart collage this February with your child.

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