Life Science Activities : Page 3

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

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.

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

Try hammering some plants with your kids to teach them a valuable lesson in flower science while making beautiful artwork in the process!

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

In this physics project, you'll learn how to find the maximum height of a projectile using some math and trigonometry.

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

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

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

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

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

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

The objective of this experiment is to evaluate whether funny advertisements are more or less effective than serious advertisements.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

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

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

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

What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

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