Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 30

Here's an easy activity that will help your preschooler improve his number recognition and math skills while satisfying his afternoon hunger.

Create one-of-a-kind noisemakers to bring some fun to New Year's Eve.

Create a fun fall leaf rubbing with your child to explore shapes and textures this fall.

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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!

Make a batch of chocolate clay to teach kids the art of molding and sculpting. Working with their hands has never been this much fun.

Kids will love this more challenging version of tag where they'll have to run while "attached" to someone else.

The objectives of this classic game are to toss a marker onto each square, to hop onto the single squares, and to skip the square where the marker landed.

This engaging, fun, pattern resist painting is inspired by your little one's love of shapes.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Help your kindergarten scientist discover relative size, density, and buoyancy with this fun, pumpkin science project!

Make learning to read even more fun for kids by creating an accordion learning book filled with fun transportation pictures.

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

In this arts and crafts activity, let your kindergartener create life-sized body stamps using some paint and his own hands and feet.

Make unique holiday ornaments with this sticky, stringy art project.

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

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

This simple and seasonal kid activity turns glue and food coloring into beautiful autumn leaves that will last forever.

Here's a color matching game that is perfect for winter! Your child will race against the clock to assemble the name of a color with its matching parts.

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

This guessing game is a hoot. And it helps teach kids to categorize a set of objects-- a key skill for preschool.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Shed some "light" on the Chinese culture while brightening up your home. Teach your child the Chinese character for good luck with this lantern craft.

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Homemade candy canes are a sweet gift for your friends and family. Make homemade candy canes with your child this Christmas.