Early Childhood Science Activities : Page 2

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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

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.

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

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

What do you get when you combine science and fairies? Fairy scientists who make their own potion, of course! This activity promotes critical thinking skills as your child mixes, experiments, and creates their very own fairy potions.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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

Make these homemade shell fossils and introduce your child to the wonders of science!

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

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