Elementary School Life Science Activities : Page 7

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.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Does your middle school teenager have good reflexes? Gauge his reaction time in this science and math activity that requires only a yardstick and a friend.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

Boys might wrinkle their noses at the thought of gardening, but we guarantee they'll like this activity! Make a recycled terrarium full of bug-eating plants.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."