Preschool - 1st Grade Life Science Activities

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

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

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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

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

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

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.

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

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

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.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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!

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!

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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 fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

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!

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

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

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

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

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