Preschool - 2nd Grade Activities : Page 49

Find the North Star, and measure your latitude! The purpose of this science fair project is to find latitude and learn about geographic locations.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Make mom feel like the star that she truly is by holding a movie premiere in her honor, complete with red carpet!

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

Here are two streamlined breakfast ideas so that mom not only gets a delicious breakfast for Mother's Day, but a clean kitchen too!

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Make a gingerbread house with your kid with this tutorial. Learn how to make a gingerbread house using a milk carton, graham crackers, and frosting.

Make Hanukkah gift bags with your child this holiday season. These Hanukkah gift bags are great for passing out gelt to teachers and friends.

Create a glamorous yet easy-to-store puppet stage for your preschooler or pre-kindergartener!

Based on the popular "I Spy" game, this activity lets your kid practice important skills like number identification and place value.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Does your kid love crafts AND food? Teach him to paint with natural dyes from food! He'll be amazed that food can be made into art, just like in ancient times.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

The kitchen can be a favorite place for kids. And cooking helps them develop valuable skills-- from eye-hand coordination, to reading, to math

Create an American flag pinwheel in this Fourth of July craft activity!

Make Mom a Queen For A Day crown for Mother's Day.

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

It's easy to be a master Italian chef with this target practice game played with a pizza board constructed out of felt and Velcro bean bag "toppings."

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

Put those paper bowls to good use! Enjoy a preschool classic craft, great for passing the time on a rainy afternoon.

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.