Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 2

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.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

In this activity, your child will have an opportunity to discuss what they like about themselves, and they will design a digital or physical poster that displays their talents, what they like, and images that describe themselves.

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Jump into pretend play this Easter with a classic preschool arts and crafts activity: make a bunny paper bag puppet!

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

This Rudolph craft will help your kid make a goofy and memorable ornament. Make a Rudolph craft this winter to bring some added merriment to your Christmas.

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

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

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.