Kindergarten and 1st Grade Life Science Activities : Page 2

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

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

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!

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

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.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

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

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.

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

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!

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

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

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

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

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

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

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

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.