1st and 2nd Grade Life Science Activities

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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.

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!

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

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!

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

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!

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.

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

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.