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.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

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

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

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

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

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

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

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

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

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

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

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.

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.

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

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

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

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.