Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 32

Painting cookies is a fun way for your child to exercise his fine motor skills and be creative at the same time.

This circle game practices patterning and flexes your child's memory.

This fun craft is perfect to do in the spring, and opens up the opportunity to teach your child about birds.

These papier-mâché bracelets are simple to make, and the result is truly stunning!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Get ready for Thanksgiving by enlisting your child in the preparations! In this activity, you'll work together to create some adorable turkey napkin rings.

It's Thanksgiving, so why not celebrate of the turkey? Let the little ones partake in the turkey fun, without having to do any of the carving.

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

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.

Learn how to make a cape for your little superhero, vampire, or Elvis impersonator. See how to make a cape with this simple tutorial.

Take a bite out of these sticky-sweet banana ghosts to create a Halloween memory your kid's taste buds will never forget.

Who needs a plastic potato head when you can use the real thing?

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

Celebrate your little one's move to big kid school by throwing a very special graduation party complete with friends, crafts, and lots of energetic fun.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Celebrate Groundhog Day with this cute groundhog pop-up toy. All you need is construction paper, a craft stick, and a paper cup to get started.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

With a few basic art supplies and a little imagination, you can repurpose empty oatmeal containers into a one-of-a-kind Father's Day cookie jar.

Turn ordinary cookies into puppets and create edible performance art!

This homemade alphabet game will keep your kindergartener on his toes and help him practice letter, numbers, and taking turns. The whole family can participate!

Make a candy wrapper collage with your leftover candy wrappers! This candy wrapper collage is a cool, upcycled post-Halloween craft project.

Let your kid have fun painting by blowing the paint around on the paper rather than using a paintbrush. The result will be a fabulously abstract piece of art!

Provide your child with Q-tip paint brushes that are bunched together and easy to grip, and encourage him to go to work on his painting masterpiece!

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Make this paper chain calendar and give your child a visual reminder of the passing of time.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Get ready for leftovers with an adorable turkey lunch bag! This recycled craft is a great way to remind everyone how much fun they had on Thanksgiving.

Collage this elegant spring-themed card that's sure to freshen someone's day!

Celebrate African-American history with your child by cooking up peanut soup, a dish rooted in African-American culture.