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Life science activities & experiments that help show your child the fun side of learning science. From easy life science activities to more advanced, we've got you covered.

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How Old is That Tree?

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Bread Mold Experiment

This bread mold experiment will help your child learn about mold, and he'll develop important hypothesis-making and experiment-designing skills.

Butterfly Life Cycle

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

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!

See Seeds Come to Life!

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Extract DNA from Spinach!

Show your middle schooler how a quick whirl of spinach in the blender will reveal the cobwebby "stuff"--or DNA--of life!

Build a Terrarium

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Explore the Four Components of Blood

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

Find Out Why Leaves Change Color

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

Make Edible Amber Fossils

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Create a Flip Book!

Trick your eye with this easy-to-make animation flip book! It's a fun way to learn about persistence of vision and is creative enough to entertain anyone.

Do Plants Breathe?

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your kid with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Making Measurements: How Big is Your Hand?

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

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.

Bottle Terrarium

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Explore Genetics by Finding Family Traits!

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

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.

Frogs In Winter

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

Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.

Measure Your Pulse with a Straw!

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

Sense of Smell Activity

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

Make Spider Web Art!

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

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.

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