Kindergarten and 1st Grade Science Activities : Page 11

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

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

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

Help your kindergarten scientist understand the concept of surface tension with this simple science experiment.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

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

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

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

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

Introduce your child to the wonders of colorful chemistry with this simple food coloring project.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!