Science For Kids & Preschool Science Activities

 Preschool science can be fun for kids. Preschool science 

experiments and sensory activities for children help to

develop observational skills, reasoning skills, fine motor

and cognitive skills as well as many others.

Children love learning how things work, why they do what 

they do and watching the exciting outcomes and reactions

as well as feeling textures etc. for sensory.

What is pretty obvious to adults is often not obvious to

children who are just learning and noticing many things 

we take for granted.

Try a few of our simple science experiments for kids below.

Watch a few of our Preschool Science Videos...

Preschool Science Experiment: How Strong Is It?

You Will Need Any 5 or All Of:

• parchment paper
• wax paper
• tin foil
• regular paper
• bristol board
• plastic bag
• construction paper
• tissue paper
• bubble wrap
• chart paper
• marker

Science Experiment Directions:

Depending on the size of your preschool class and how

much time you have in the day, bring in 5 of the above

materials or all of them.

On a piece of chart paper, write down the list of items

you brought in. Now ask the class which materials

they think will be the easiest and hardest to rip and

make notes beside each item written down.

Now on another piece of chart paper, do the same

thing in the same order except this time, have a child

come up and rip one of the pieces of materials and

document their answer as to whether it was easy or

hard for them to rip. Have a different child come up

for each material.

Lastly, compare the charts and post them in the

room for the children to go back to later and discuss

amongst themselves.

What you will need for this Science Activity:

• 500ml clear water bottle (label removed)
• water
• blue or green food coloring
• cooking oil
• sparkles (optional)
• shells (optional)
• mini sea shaped plastic pieces (optional)
• glue gun
• stickers (optional)

What to do:

Fill the bottle half full with water and mix the food coloring in it and shake with the lid on for a few seconds. Fill the bottle up the rest of the way with water (just to the end of the neck).

Put sparkles, or ocean pieces or shells in the water.

Hot glue the lid onto the bottle and have. (sparkled hot glue looks great, you can find it in any craft store)

Put only a few stickers on the outside of the bottle if desired.

Shake and have fun with your ocean in a bottle.

What you will need:

• 2 large bowls or bins
• 2 large chunks of ice or snow
• Coarse Salt or industrial salt for melting outdoor ice
• Chart Paper
• Marker

What to do For This Science Activity:

Fill the two bins with the snow or ice.

Ask the children who thinks the ice alone will melt more

quickly, and how many children think the ice with the salt will

melt more quickly.

Document their answers on chart paper.

Dump a handful or two of salt onto the ice in one of the bins and

wait to see what happens.

Document the end result and compare it with the children's answers.

How does salt make ice melt more quickly?

Answer: When the ice starts to dissolve it changes the temperature

in the ice slightly, causing it to start melting faster than ice just

sitting on its own.

(Same answer if using snow instead of ice).

What Are Clouds and Fog?

What are clouds made of? Clouds are made of tiny little droplets of water or ice crystals. If you want to make a cloud of your own, go outside on a cold day and have everyone breathe out. The moisture and warmth of your breath with make a cloud escape from your mouth.

Is it possible to touch a cloud? When it is a very foggy day outside, have everyone put their jackets on and walk through the fog for a few minutes. Do you see your clothes getting damp. That is because you are walking through a cloud and clouds are made of tiny water droplets as we learned above.

What is fog? As we learned above, fog is a cloud. The only difference is that fog looks like it blankets over the entire ground and clouds sit high up in the sky in large marshmallow like puffs.

Kindergarten children can be taught the three different types of clouds.

The 3 Types Of Clouds Are:

Stratus: These clouds are layered or flat grey sheets spread out over a distance. Fog is considered a layered cloud as it stretches over large areas. These clouds are grey, very thick, and can carry snow, or rain.

Cirrus or Curl Clouds: These clouds look like wisps up in the sky. It looks like they were painted with a brush stroke.

Cumulus: Cumulus clouds are referred to as a huge pile of clouds or a huge heap of clouds. Heap clouds are dark and can be very tall; when you see clouds like these a thunderstorm or other bad weather may be on its way.

Clouds give us shade from the sun. On a hot day, we can find a shady spot and let our bodies cool off. At night the clouds protect our earth from getting to cold.