Life Science Activities : Page 6

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

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

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

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.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

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

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

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

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.

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.

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!

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

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

In the mood for a bit of silly science? Help your child create a truly one-of-a-kind planter out of a potato head!

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

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

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.

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.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

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

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Which do you prefer: real or artificial? Try this sweet little taste experiment to help your kids develop a better awareness of the food they consume.

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.