Preschool - 2nd Grade Science Activities : Page 15

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

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.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Here's a fun science experiment that's refreshingly tasty too! Turn regular water into a tasty treat perfect for consuming on a hot day.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Step into the fantastic world of colors with a project that explores what shade you -- and your friends -- like best.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

This is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of volume, and give them a quick hands-on activity to boot.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology science fair project.