Preschool - 1st Grade Activities : Page 40

Want to make your own version of the Hollywood walk of fame in your own garden? Immortalize your child's handiwork by creating a cement handprint craft.

Help your child learn her numbers and how to count with this fun number game!

This autumn science project magically turns green leaves into autumn leaves by using crayon shavings and heat.

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

With a little guidance from parents, youngsters can create a Christmas tree using their thumb as a stamp.

Here's a delightful activity that uses your child's name to help him improve his writing skills.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

This heart chain will help spread the love on Valentine's Day. Help your child make a colorful heart chain for your home or classroom this Valentine's Day.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

Enjoy the fragrant scents of the holiday season with this pomander activity. A perfect arts and crafts project for preschool or kindergarten age children.

Teach your kids about colors and patterns while creating a beautiful work of art.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Heart math is a great way to celebrate Valentine's Day and familiarize your advanced preschooler with the concept of adding numbers.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

This St. Patrick's Day show your child to the fun of resist painting. It's as simple as getting out a crayon and some watercolor paints!

Invite your kindergartener to explore the bright new world of measurement by starting out with nonstandard (and tasty!) units, such as gummy bears or worms.

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

Before hitting the road this summer, arm yourself with Straight Face, a game guaranteed to turn bored frowns into happy grins and giggles.

Crayon hearts add some Valentine's Day fun to your child's coloring pages. Make a set of crayons hearts as a beautiful gift for your child or a friend.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Explore the changing seasons with your preschooler by helping her create a cork-stamped masterpiece.

Make a mixed up animal collage and help your preschooler build her visual arts and math skills along the way.

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

Preschoolers can explore shapes and texture in this fun and fantastically messy art project!

Want to capture this year? Make a time capsule of this period in your child's life! You may just be surprised at what you find, when you dig it up next year...

Your kindergartener will thoroughly enjoy making this gingerbread man paper chain. This activity is small on cost, but large on imagination!