Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 15

Try a little eco-friendly crafting this Easter: turn lonely, misfit socks into bunny sculptures in this recycled arts and crafts activity.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity and surprise someone special on May Day with a homemade basket of pretty tissue paper blooms.

Let your child set her artistic talent free with an easy, environmentally-friendly bottle cap mosaic.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Want to build some homemade instruments? These maracas make a racket, and they couldn't be easier to make...

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

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

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which helps with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

A serape is a long, blanket-like shawl worn over the shoulders. With a few simple materials, your child can fashion his very own serape!

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

this mosaic-inspired activity uses kid-friendly yarn and glue to help your kindergarten kid design her own vibrant, brightly-colored flower.