Preschool - 5th Grade Science Activities : Page 6

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

Why do ants like sugar? Do ants like artificial sweeteners too? Kids find out with this great inquiry-based science fair project.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Science fair project which teaches you about the principles of physics within a vacuum by creating a vacuum chamber.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

This science fair project idea creates a sedimentary rock and to investigate what takes place during the rock cycle.

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.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

In this fun science project, learn about what happens to cut fruit and experiment with how to stop apples from turning brown.

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Learn about magnifying glasses, concave lenses and inverted images by sending rays of light through a magnifying glass in this cool science fair project!

Do you think you can blow down a sand castle with a mighty wind? Find out which material stands up best to erosion in this erosion experiment.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!