Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 3

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

This season, your child will make his very own candy cane decoration. He can make a bunch and put them all around your home!

Kids entranced by Little House on the Prairie? This popsicle stick "log cabin" is a great introduction to pioneer history.

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

Create a winter centerpiece that will fill your entire house will holiday cheer. This winter centerpiece is seasonal whether there's snow outside or not.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

These paper pumpkins will make lovely, festive centerpieces in your home this fall.

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

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

In this activity, your kid will cut rectangles, circles and triangles to create a portrait of the jolliest man of them all: Santa Claus!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

This easy Halloween-themed science experiment for first-graders is perfect for chilly October afternoons or great as a Halloween party activity.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

In this fun science project your child will get practice following directions and getting messy as they learn all about slime!

This Halloween, encourage your child to create a super sweet mosaic. They'll make a candy corn pumpkin and then decide if they want to eat it, or keep it!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Reinforce your child’s foundational math skills while creating small works of seasonal art with this creative Halloween rock painting activity!

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

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