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Browse through our Preschool science activities & experiments. We have many Preschool science activities to keep your student learning on the fly, all year long. For more in depth science projects, take a look at the Science Fair Project Ideas section of the site.

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Help your preschooler explore the effects of light and shadow, and make a pretty sun print at the same time!
Sun Prints for Kids
Preschool
Simple Experiments
Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.
Homemade Periscope
Preschool
Simple Experiments
Baking these fun cookies will introduce your child to the concept of cross-sections.
Bake Tree Ring Cookies
Preschool
Plants, Animals & the Earth
Help your preschooler practice counting, matching, and learning colors with this fun game!
Practice Colors and Numbers with Clothespin Drop!
Preschool
Colors
One stick of each pair has two halves of a simple shape Your child will match up the pairs to complete each shape.
Play the Matching Halves Game
Preschool
Colors
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.
Tin Can Phone
Preschool
Simple Experiments
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!
Grow Grass... and a Pet
Preschool
Plants, Animals & the Earth
Plastic pipes and pipe connectors make a quick and fun activity for preschoolers. Try some of our pipe challenges!
Play with Pipes!
Preschool
Simple Experiments
Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.
Make Your Own Edible Play Dough
Preschool
The 5 Senses
Apple slices can turn brown, but when they are coated with lemon juice the acid keeps the apples fresh. Here's how to help your preschooler experiment:
Apple Slice Science!
Preschool
Simple Experiments
This fun craft activity is easy enough for your child to help, and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.
Tissue Paper Butterfly Hunt
Preschool
Nature Activities
In this easy arts and crafts activity, preschoolers can offer nesting materials to birds in a colorful spring hanger and learn about the scientific method.
Help Build a Bird's Nest
Preschool
Plants, Animals & the Earth
Your child will begin to recognize written color names as she looks at the different patterns and matches them up with the correct color name.
Play a Matching Game: Color Names
Preschool
Colors
Use the activity below to help your child create bath salts as she observes how a solid changes when placed in a liquid.
Make Quick and Easy Bath Salts
Preschool
Simple Experiments
Featuring plenty of good old fashioned squishy, gooey fun without the mess, this compromise of an art project is sure to please little ones and grown-ups alike.
Create Squishy Paint Art
Preschool
Colors

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