Early Childhood Science Activities : Page 6

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.