Life Science Activities : Page 4

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.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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

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

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

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

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.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

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

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

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

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

This project will examine the relationship between wind velocity and direction and the distance a baseball travels.

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

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.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

This project determines how much the rebound rates of tennis balls change after ten games.

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

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

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

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.

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

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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

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

Ethanol can be used as an alternative fuel! The purpose of this experiment is to identify a starch plant that produces the largest quantity of ethanol.

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

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.