Preschool - 2nd Grade Life Science Activities : Page 5

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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!

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

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.