Early Childhood Science Activities : Page 5

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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

This preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

Your preschooler can learn how to siphon water with just two bottles and a plastic tube in this fun, educational science activity.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

This science fair project introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Teach your little scientist about the amazing powers of gravity by comparing the falling speeds of two yummy fruits

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!