Preschool Science Activities</

Preschool Science Activities

Preschool science is easy for kids, they are curious about everything. Children are natural scientists and the world is their laboratory.

My little tip -Start a science box and fill it full of everyday items: microscope, rulers, strings, magnets, paper cups, toothpicks, coins, rubber bands, paper clips, q-tips, or a compass. Now you have a box full of preschool science experiments!
-Encourage your child to experiment, ask questions, and explore. When he is making mud pies in the backyard, relax, he is doing science experiments.

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Airplane Flying
Help your child make paper airplanes, (Paper Airplanes Worksheet). You can use different types paper or let your child color the paper before folding. Using the airplanes, let your child experiment flying them. Try having airplane races, or see how far your child can fly their airplane and marking where it lands.

Discovery Guess & Feel Bags
Materials:
Optional: construction paper, cotton balls, feathers, any other items for your child to guess

Fold construction paper in half and staple three of the sides together. Place an item in each separate bag. Have your child reach into the bag, one at a time, and try to guess what it is. Then show what it is.
Erin R., Florida

Preschool Science Fun Floaters
Materials:
Optional: cotton balls, feathers, paper, bubbles, any other lightweight items

Toss the lightweight objects up and watch them float down, or use a hair dryer to blow them up and keep them afloat.
Erin R., Florida

How Does It Melt
Materials:
Items that melt: chocolate chips, crayon pieces, butter, ice cubes, or gummy worms
ziplock bag for each item
microwave

Place each of the items in a ziplock bag. Let your child look at, feel and smell each item. Then one by one melt each item in the microwave. Check to make sure they aren’t too hot, then give the bags back to your child. Let your child explore the bags again and ask questions. How do the different items feel now? What do they look like now?

Invisible Ink
Materials:
lemon or lime juice
q-tips or paint brushes
paper

Pour the juice into a bowl and let your child paint with it or help them write a message. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. When your child's picture is done put it in the oven for a couple of minutes, until the juice turns brown.

Preschool Science Magnetic Hunt
Materials:
Magnet

Give your child a magnet and go on a hunt around the house to find things that are magnetic. You can also give your child a pile of objects and have them find which ones are magnetic.

Mini Volcano
Materials:
vinegar
baking soda
container
optional: food coloring

Pour vinegar into a container and, if you want, add food coloring. Then have your child spoon in some baking soda. To make it really fun, help your child sculpt a volcano out of sculpting dough, leaving a pit in the middle for a plastic cup to fit. When the dough is hard and painted, put the cup in the middle. Add the vinegar, some red food coloring and then spoon in some baking soda.

Plastic Cup Telephones
Materials:
2 plastic cups or tin cans
thumbtack
long string
2 toothpicks

Poke a small hole in the bottom of the cups or cans. Push the string through the hole and tie it around a toothpick to keep it from being pulled out the bottom. Do the same in the other cup. Make sure the string is tight when you talk, otherwise it won’t work.

Rubber Band Shooters
Materials:
rubber bands
cards

Help your child make a card house. Then let your child shoot rubber bands to knock them over. Show your child that the farther they pull it back, the farther it will go and the harder it will hit the cards. Try using different sizes of rubber bands.

Tupperware River and Lakes
Materials:
a long, flat tupperware
dirt
spoon
water

Place in the tupperware a thick layer of dirt. Using a spoon or his fingers, have your child make rivers and lakes in the dirt. When it is ready, slowly pour water in. Have him watch the water flow into the lakes. A fun outdoor preschool science activity.

Water Container Experiments
Materials:
cups and bowls
towel
water
optional items: spoons, spray bottle, measuring cups, ice, rocks, sand, sugar, flour, marbles, paper

Give your child a variety of containers. Put down a towel and let child experiment pouring water between the different containers. Try using spoons to move the water or a spray bottle. Which container holds the most? How many cups does it take to fill up a container? Try adding ice, rocks, sand, sugar, flour, marbles, or paper.

Wet or Dry
Materials:
cups and bowls
towel
water
optional items: chalk, plastic, sink counter (with water on it), carpet, wet/damp dish towel, tape, sippy cup (with condensation), metal object, marker, paint, glue

The child may guess that some items, such as metal and plastic, are wet when the things are just cold. This will help teach the difference between cold and wet. It’s tricky perhaps for them because wet items are usually cold too.
Erin R., Florida

I hope you enjoy my preschool science activities.

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