Preschool - 2nd Grade Life Science Activities : Page 3

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

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

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

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

In the mood for a bit of silly science? Help your child create a truly one-of-a-kind planter out of a potato head!