Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 4

What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

Celebrate President's Day with your kindergartener by building a delicious presidential snack: a banana log cabin!

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

There's no need to buy musical instruments when you can make your own castanets in less time than it takes to click your way through a percussive song.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Treasure hunts are tons of fun and they're a great way to introduce maps. Set the stage, and your kid's imagination will do the rest.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

This butterfly costume comes together in under an hour and is perfect for your little trick-or-treater. Make this butterfly costume for Halloween or play time.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help him learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.