Kindergarten and 1st Grade Life Science Activities : Page 4

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

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

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

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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.

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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).

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

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

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

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

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

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!

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.