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Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Kindergarten

Life Science

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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Pre-K

Life Science

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Pre-K

Life Science

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Make a Butterfly Habitat

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Make a Butterfly Habitat

First Grade

Life Science

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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Make a Butterfly Habitat

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Make a Butterfly Habitat

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

First Grade

Life Science

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Watch Your Garden Grow

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Watch Your Garden Grow

Kindergarten

Life Science

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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Watch Your Garden Grow

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Watch Your Garden Grow

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Kindergarten

Life Science

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

First Grade

Reading

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.

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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!

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!

Pre-K

Life Science

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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game

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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game

Kindergarten

Life Science

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game

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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Pre-K

Life Science

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Making Measurements: How Big is Your Hand?

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Making Measurements: How Big is Your Hand?

First Grade

Measurement

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

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Making Measurements: How Big is Your Hand?

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Making Measurements: How Big is Your Hand?

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

First Grade

Measurement

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Make a Plastic Cup Monster!

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Make a Plastic Cup Monster!

Pre-K

Life Science

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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Make a Plastic Cup Monster!

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Make a Plastic Cup Monster!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Pre-K

Life Science

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Create a Shoebox Habitat

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Create a Shoebox Habitat

First Grade

Life Science

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

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Create a Shoebox Habitat

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Create a Shoebox Habitat

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

First Grade

Life Science

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How to Grow an Avocado Plant

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How to Grow an Avocado Plant

First Grade

Life Science

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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How to Grow an Avocado Plant

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How to Grow an Avocado Plant

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

First Grade

Life Science

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Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

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Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

First Grade

Life Science

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

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Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

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Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

First Grade

Life Science

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Make Ladybug Tightrope Racers

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Make Ladybug Tightrope Racers

First Grade

Life Science

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

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Make Ladybug Tightrope Racers

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Make Ladybug Tightrope Racers

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

First Grade

Life Science

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Plant Your Name with Seeds

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Plant Your Name with Seeds

Kindergarten

Life Science

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

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Plant Your Name with Seeds

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Plant Your Name with Seeds

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Kindergarten

Life Science

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How Much Does a Caterpillar Eat?

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How Much Does a Caterpillar Eat?

First Grade

Life Science

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

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How Much Does a Caterpillar Eat?

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How Much Does a Caterpillar Eat?

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

First Grade

Life Science

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Indoor Gardening with Kitchen Waste

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Indoor Gardening with Kitchen Waste

Pre-K

Measurement

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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Indoor Gardening with Kitchen Waste

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Indoor Gardening with Kitchen Waste

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

First Grade

Life Science

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Create a Fish Art Print!

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Create a Fish Art Print!

First Grade

Life Science

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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Create a Fish Art Print!

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Create a Fish Art Print!

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Kindergarten

Life Science

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Make a Desktop Desert Terrarium

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Make a Desktop Desert Terrarium

First Grade

Life Science

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

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Make a Desktop Desert Terrarium

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Make a Desktop Desert Terrarium

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

First Grade

Life Science

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Potato Maze: Make a Plant Obstacle Course!

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Potato Maze: Make a Plant Obstacle Course!

Kindergarten

Measurement

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.

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Potato Maze: Make a Plant Obstacle Course!

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Potato Maze: Make a Plant Obstacle Course!

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.

Kindergarten

Measurement

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Make a Milk Carton Bird House

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Make a Milk Carton Bird House

First Grade

Life Science

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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Make a Milk Carton Bird House

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Make a Milk Carton Bird House

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

First Grade

Life Science

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Give Birds a Feast with a Suet or Coconut Oil Feeder

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Give Birds a Feast with a Suet or Coconut Oil Feeder

First Grade

Life Science

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

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Give Birds a Feast with a Suet or Coconut Oil Feeder

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Give Birds a Feast with a Suet or Coconut Oil Feeder

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

First Grade

Life Science

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Natural Easter Egg Dyes

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Natural Easter Egg Dyes

First Grade

Measurement

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.

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Natural Easter Egg Dyes

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Natural Easter Egg Dyes

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.

First Grade

Measurement

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About 1st Grade Life Science Activities

On Education.com, first-grade life science activities provide hands-on exploration of plants, animals, and habitats, helping young students observe and classify different living things. This content introduces kids to fundamental biological concepts while engaging their natural curiosity through activities, observation exercises, and beginner-friendly experiments.

This page offers a variety of printables, such as worksheets, observation charts, and interactive lesson plans. These resources support early science education by making the study of life cycles, plant needs, and animal traits both fun and accessible for young learners. Educators and parents can use these materials to create engaging and educational classroom or home learning environments.

Using these activities and worksheets saves time on lesson planning while providing structured opportunities for children to practice scientific observation, classification, and reasoning skills. Students can develop a stronger understanding of the living world through colorful, easy-to-follow exercises tailored to first graders.

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