Preschool - 2nd Grade Science Activities : Page 3

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

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

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?

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

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.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

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

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

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 project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

In this cool science experiment, learn about magnetism and poles, and test magnet strength to find out if two magnets are twice as strong as one.

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

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

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.

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!

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

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

Milk is made of water and fat; but how can you separate the two? Find out in this color changing milk experiment.