Preschool - 5th Grade Observations and Data Collection Activities

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!

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.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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!

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:

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

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

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

Use chemical analysis to identify a variety of mystery powders that look the same but actually have very different properties.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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.

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

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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

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.

This science fair project idea investigates the hardness property of minerals.

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

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

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.