Preschool - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 14

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

Looking for an on-the-go game that can be played anywhere, anytime? Put down the hangman and tic-tac-toe. Here's a new one for the whole family!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

While your cells are much too small to see without a microscope, you can create the look of a cell in your very own home with just an egg and vinegar!

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.

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

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

Learn how to make a food pyramid with animals in a a coniferous forest ecosystem around your home.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on their sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

An "I Love You" book is a perfect gift for a very special friend on Valentine's Day. Our "I Love You" book shares the love in eight different languages.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

A twist on the gingerbread house, this train is made with graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations. A great 2nd-3rd grade holiday arts and crafts activity.