Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 84

Looking for something to do with all those plastic 2-liter bottles that seem to accumulate endlessly? Turn them into a unique mini birdbath.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Create some commotion on your table this Halloween with some flying bats that'll be cute enough to cause a ruckus among your little party monsters.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

You and your child can make Easter egg dye with the food coloring that you already have in your cupboard.

In this social emotional learning activity, children will practice problem solving with kind attention as they play math games, participate in a mindfulness session, and create a work of art to help get them in touch with their "lion mind."

Decorated with glittery spiderwebs that sparkle like dew in the sun, these handmade note cards make great thank you cards or simply "thinking of you" cards.

Explore if planting seeds in a certain direction will affect how fast it germinates.

Your child can commemorate the best Halloween candy of all time using foam sheets to give your little monster a little practice tracing triangular shapes.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

This activity will give your child a chance to practice threading a needle, and she'll end up with a fun and unique hair band!

Your child will jump at the chance to get messy (under adult supervision, of course) with this project and create some unique home decor that really shines!

Plan ahead for summer, by constructing a holiday calendar with your child. A great way to teach kids about time!

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

This arts and crafts activity will help your kindergartener with shape and color recognition.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Set off an a science adventure as you prepare a row of bee homes for your new visitors.

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

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.

In this activity, your child will use household objects to sculpt his very own football.

Introduce your kindergartener to some art history by showing him how to create an everyday object print, Andy Warhol-style.

Help your child explore their imagination and self-image with a larger-than-life-size self-portrait!

Make clothing battles a thing of the past by allowing your second grader to design his own dress-up shirt out of an ultra-comfy t-shirt for New Year's.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Running out of breakfast ideas for your kid? Make a delicious egg and cheese bird's nest.

Craft a durable, three-dimensional Santa boot that looks great as a stocking, gift box, holiday decoration, or table centerpiece.

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

Work on measurement by sliding cards along a table with your second grader in this fun game. Use centimeters or inches, add up your totals, and see who's won!

This variation of Duck, Duck, Goose is played in pairs, which means a lot more activity for participants!

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.