Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Life Science Activities : Page 5

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

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

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.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

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

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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

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

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

In this science fair projects, students will grow out the bacteria that collect on air conditioner filters.

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.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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.

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.

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

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

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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!

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

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!

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

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

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