Preschool - 1st Grade Science Activities : Page 4

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

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 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.

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

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

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

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

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

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

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

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 project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

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!

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

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.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

Make homemade lemonade in a baggie with your preschooler with this fun and easy recipe.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.