Kindergarten Life Science Activities : Page 2

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

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

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!

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

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.