Kindergarten Science Activities and Experiments
Design Your Own Planet
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Design Your Own Planet
In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.
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Construct a Weather Spinner
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Construct a Weather Spinner
This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.
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Pollution Experiment
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Pollution Experiment
Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
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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.
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Growing Jack-o'-Lantern
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Growing Jack-o'-Lantern
In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.
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Outer Space Painting
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Outer Space Painting
Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.
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Craft the Frog Life Cycle
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Craft the Frog Life Cycle
Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.
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Chromatography for Kids
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Chromatography for Kids
Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!
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Go on a Nature Hunt!
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Go on a Nature Hunt!
In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.
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Make Your Own Fossils
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Make Your Own Fossils
In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!
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How to Press Flowers
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How to Press Flowers
April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!
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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.
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Make a Sandcastle You Can Keep!
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Make a Sandcastle You Can Keep!
Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!
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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!
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Make Garden Pinwheels
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Make Garden Pinwheels
Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!
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Explore Earth Science and Make a "Worm Hotel"
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Explore Earth Science and Make a "Worm Hotel"
Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.
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Make a Parachute Toy
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Make a Parachute Toy
This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.
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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.
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Balloon Greenhouse
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Balloon Greenhouse
Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.
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Cardboard Bugs
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Cardboard Bugs
Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.
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Corn Maze STEM Challenge
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Corn Maze STEM Challenge
Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!
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Grow Bean Sprouts Without Soil
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Grow Bean Sprouts Without Soil
Kids conduct a simple science experiment to see if seeds can grow without soil in this simple kindergarten science activity.
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