Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Life Science Activities : Page 2

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.

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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

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

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

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

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

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.

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

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!

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

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

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.