Preschool science activity ideas
This is a super simple craft activity using the colours of the rainbow to demonstrate to preschoolers how rainbows form and to teach them about the colours of the rainbow. I cut out a cloud shape, a sun, and a square for rain, and then asked my daughter to thread some fluffy wool around the cloud….
I try to make any learning we do at home fun and for me science is the most obvious way to do this. I’d love to know what you think of this collection of ideas for supporting literacy with science. I’m going to keep adding ideas so do pop back to see more. Supporting literacy…
Stick Man by Julia Donaldson is one of my favourite children’s books. I think partly because it reminds me of Autumn and Christmas, which are my favourite times of the year. Stick Man has inspired a lot of fun activities in our house recently. We hope you like them, and do let us know if…
All you need for this fun, messy activity is an empty box, some marbles or other small balls and paint. Things to investigate Can you blow the balls into goals? Is it easier to blow a heavy ball or a lighter ball? What happens if you tip the box up? Does the ball move faster…
I’ve been trying to get my fizzy paint recipe perfect for a few weeks now and think I’ve finally found the ideal combination of viscosity and fizz. You could use this activity to learn about chemical reactions ( baking soda and vinegar ), practice writing letters or numbers or just be to be creative. What…
A colour wheel is a great visual way to learn about primary and secondary colours and fun science crafts. Mixing Colours RED + YELLOW = ORANGE YELLOW + BLUE = GREEN BLUE + RED = PURPLE How to make a DIY colour wheel What you need Two pieces of cardboard One split pin Coloured pens Or, use…
Printing patterns with LEGO® is a simple STEM activity for young children. The bricks are a great shape for making robots or building shapes, and DUPLO® bricks are easy for little hands to hold. We did our LEGO® printing outside to contain the mess. You can print with LEGO people, normal bricks or DUPLO bricks…
Objects float when they are less dense than the fluid they are in. If you dropped a tennis ball and a marble into a bucket of water, the marble would sink, and the tennis ball would float. This is because a tennis ball is full of air ( it is not very dense ), and…
This is a fun summer twist on sensory play with Oobleck. I simply added a small amount of kool-aid mixed with water to my goo (cornflour ( cornstarch ) and water), then carefully poured the mixture into shaped ice cube trays before leaving in the freezer for a few hours. The frozen kool-aid oobleck slipped out of…
Plastic milk was one of the first experiments I posted on Science Sparks when the kids were little. It was a lovely sensory experience for them at the time, but they obviously couldn’t understand what was happening; with that in mind, we revisited the activity with the addition of some food colouring. I didn’t measure…
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