Life Science Activities : Page 3

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

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.

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

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

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

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

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

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

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

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

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.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

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

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

In this game, players will learn interesting facts about animal adaption and practice them using a fun matching card game!

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

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

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

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!