Preschool - 4th Grade Life Science Activities : Page 7

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.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

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 can explore the wonders of science, and the concept of dehydration, along with creating a healthy and tasty treat!

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.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."