Preschool - 2nd Grade Science Activities : Page 7

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

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.

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

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

How do animals keep warm? In this experiment, find out whether fat insulation resists cold temperatures and learn how this works in the animal kingdom.

Help your kindergarten scientist discover relative size, density, and buoyancy with this fun, pumpkin science project!

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

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

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

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.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.