Preschool - 1st Grade Back to School Activities

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

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

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

This colorful foam pencil topper will glam up any boring pencil and is guaranteed to add personality to any pencil case!

Prepare for school the washi tape way with some washi tape school supplies!

Help your preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos your child can collage a memento of home.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Get into the back-to-school spirit with this clip magnet that'll make sure your first grader never loses his important school papers again!

Keep school day sniffles at bay with a simple felt tissue cozy that fits neatly in a 3-ring binder.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!