Kindergarten and 1st Grade Science Activities : Page 6

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

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!

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

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

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!