Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 19

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

Celebrate Easter brunch with these flaky, delicious, and--yes--healthy whole wheat "bunny biscuits."

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Hand-painted pottery is the perfect way to add a bit of decoration to your potted plants.

Make your own volleyball net! This beach ball game is a great activity for kids of all ages to develop coordination and teamwork.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

Explore African culture by helping your child make his very own djembe drum! Help your child explore music and rhythm as he celebrates Black History Month.

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Try a little eco-friendly crafting this Easter: turn lonely, misfit socks into bunny sculptures in this recycled arts and crafts activity.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity and surprise someone special on May Day with a homemade basket of pretty tissue paper blooms.

Let your child set her artistic talent free with an easy, environmentally-friendly bottle cap mosaic.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Want to build some homemade instruments? These maracas make a racket, and they couldn't be easier to make...

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by making personalized art out of some Celtic letters.

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.