Early Childhood Science Activities : Page 3

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 makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

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.

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

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

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

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.

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

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

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

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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

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

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

Make homemade lemonade in a baggie with your preschooler with this fun and easy recipe.

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

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

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

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

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

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

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.