Preschool - 1st Grade Science Activities : Page 2

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

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!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This easy Halloween-themed science experiment for first-graders is perfect for chilly October afternoons or great as a Halloween party activity.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

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.

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

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.