Preschool - 2nd Grade Science Activities : Page 3

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!

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

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.

In this science fair project, kids will be able to see where germs reside on their hands while gaining insight into the benefits of thorough hand washing.

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

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!

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

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

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

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.