Preschool - 2nd Grade Measurement Activities : Page 2

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

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.

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

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

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Help your curious kid cut through the clutter and collect the facts with a simple and fun science foldable.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Preschoolers are fascinated by how colors can be mixed to form new ones. This activity combines color mixing with the concept of melting for extra science fun.

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

This recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

If you're looking for a fun way to have your child gain practice pattern-making while working out fine motor skills, making Washi eggs is the perfect activity.

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

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

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Forget the measuring stick! This fun math activity uses a body part, your child's hand, as a ruler.

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

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

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how: