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When you are faced with the daunting task of keeping 20-30 kindergartners focused on a lesson plan, the perfect remedy is a year one activity from Education.com. Science lessons come to life with year one activities like making waves in a bottle. Foundational maths skills are built and brain connections enhanced through memory match games. The indoor and outdoor year one activities below will entertain and educate for hours.

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Make a Cereal Box House

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

Summer Community Helpers

Summer is a good time to teach children about other kinds of community helpers, such as lifeguards, forest rangers, and librarians. This activity is a fun way to get them introduced!

Checkerboard Play

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Learn About the Police Badge

In this activity, students will learn about the meaning and information on a police badge. Then they will be able to create their own badge with their own identification.

Blow the House Down with Robotics

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who â€œblows the house down.â€

Make a Puppet Theater

In this arts and crafts activity, work with your preschooler to transform a cardboard box into a puppet theater and put on your own puppet drama.

Try a Cat in the Hat-Inspired Balancing Act

On Read Across America Day, challenge your kindergartener to a balancing act inspired by the mischievous star of "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss.

Play an ABC Balloon Game

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your kindergartener by playing an alphabet balloon volley game inspired by "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss.

Make Chocolate Covered Pretzels to Give as Gifts!

Do you want your child to remember time spent with loved ones and the satisfaction of giving a gift with real meaning? Try making these tasty treats!

Play This Paper Construction Game!

What IS That Thing? is a game for kids of all ages that uses scrap paper and junk from around the house! A great way to recycle, reduce, and reuse.

Make Stained Glass Crayons

Here's how to use crayon scraps to make beautiful stained glass window hangings.

Make a Soda Bottle Greenhouse

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Spider crafts help your child get into the Halloween spirit! Make our spider craft, featuring a spider and its web, this October to decorate for Halloween.

Content Clues: Writing with Pictures

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Christmas Skip Counting Book

Give your child some practise with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

Make a Tissue Box Thanksgiving Turkey

Make this turkey craft with your child to get into the Thanksgiving spirit. This turkey craft is made of a tissue box and other assorted craft supplies.

Making Wind Chimes

This beaded wind chime is fun to make and it gets kids experimenting with patterns, a key year one maths skill.

Tissue Paper Candle Holder

Looking for a last minute gift? This homemade candle holder is a breeze to make, and its pretty glow really brightens up a room. A great craft project.

Homemade Truffles

Even chocolate can make an appearance in year one maths. These truffles are truly easy to make and add a bit of decadence to maths practise!

Make a Parachute Toy

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of year one science.

Make a ME Timeline

For a cool art project, help your child create a "Me Timeline," a unique poster that works on a key maths and social studies skill: putting events in order.

Make a Thank You Frame

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Bean Sprout Science

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and she may even develop a green thumb in the process!

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

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