Life Science Activities : Page 2

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.

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

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

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.

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.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

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!

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

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

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

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.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

This project explores the interaction between air pressure and playing surface in determining a basketballâs bounce.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

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.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

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

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.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.