Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 26

A heart collage is the perfect Valentine's Day art project for your young artist. Make a heart collage this February with your child.

Set your child's creative spirit free with heart art! He'll experiment placing hearts in patterns, designs, and configurations to make this 'heartfelt' art.

Try this fun preschool arts and crafts activity: make art by grating colored chalk over a sheet of buttermilk-painted paper. Watch as it sparkles!

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

This Where the Wild Things Are costume will make your little wild thing look just like Max. This Where the Wild Things Are costume is surprisingly easy to make.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

This fun art project is a great way to introduce your child to some basic geometry.

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

Kids love making shapes with Play-Doh, so they'll love creating their own colorful playful clay!

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Give snack time a fresh floral touch with this flower-shaped garden snack, perfect for tea parties with your preschooler!

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

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

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

Encourage your child to create a tribute to their past, and explore future dreams and goals with this narrative assemblage.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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!

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

This activity will have your child cutting and gluing to his heart's content. What's more, he'll create a pretty, mixed media plate for Seder while he's at it!

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

A tisket, a tasket, here's a pretty homemade basket to fill with treats at Easter.

Make interesting art and learn about shapes, lines and patterns by using spaghetti noodles.