Preschool - 1st Grade Science Activities : Page 2

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

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.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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!

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.