Life Science Activities : Page 4

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

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

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.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

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.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

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

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

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Compare the whitening abilities of four different brands of whitening toothpaste to see which one whitens the fastest and which one whitens the most.

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!

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

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

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

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

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

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