Preschool - 4th Grade Life Science Activities : Page 4

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!

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

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.

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

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.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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.

This fun and easy middle school science fair project idea explores the topic of pollution and demonstrates if polluted soil affect the growth of green plants.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

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!

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

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

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.