Preschool - 1st Grade Science Activities : Page 2

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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

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 science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

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.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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.

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

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

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

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.