Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Life Science Activities : Page 3

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

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

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

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!

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

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

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

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

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

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

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

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

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

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

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!

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.

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

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.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

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!

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:

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

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!