Preschool - 3rd Grade Activities : Page 8

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

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

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

This easy and inexpensive paper towel science project introduces kids to important physical concepts like cohesion, adhesion, and capillarity.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with a colorful rainbow, a pot of gold and an introduction to printmaking.

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

Halloween is approaching, so why not create some ghost flash cards that will help your child learn their numbers the spooky way?

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This St. Patrick's-themed color game reinforces your kindergartener's recognition of green objects, and also gives her reading and listening skills a work out.

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

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Check out this interactive number line. It's a great way to strengthen your preschoolers understanding of basic numbers and the numerals that represent them.

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

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.

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

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.

Will potatoes spud or sprout faster in dry, dark, or cold conditions? Find out in this science fair project idea!

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

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

The objective of this science fair project is to observe the differences in heat absorption for darker colors vs. lighter colors.

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.