Preschool - 1st Grade Science Activities : Page 3

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!

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

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

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

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

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

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

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

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!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

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

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.

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

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

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.