Find projects and exercises to excite and challenge the little scientist in your family. Browse through the list of science activities to do at home and find a fun, educational project for any age or interest. From moon gazing, to creating art with milk and paint, to play dough fun, you and your child are sure to discover the fun in scientific exploration.

Below is a list of recommended activities for your young scientist at home available for you to download.

Beach in a Bottle
Learn about the properties of water, sea life, shells, types, sizes, and shapes.

Birthday Tree
Learn about emotions- feeling important and meaningful, taking responsibility for a living thing, and creating a family ritual.

Cleanup Classification
Sort, label, identify, and compare properties of a variety of objects.

Cloud Gazing
Develop observation, vocabulary, and emotional skills.

Cornstarch Goop
Learn observation skills, properties of a liquid versus a solid, and sensory experience.

Exploring and Rolling Oranges
Enhance language through discussion about an activity and learn about the properties of an orange.

Feed the Birds
Learn about birds, observation, hypothesis formation and curiosity, measuring, counting, and charting.

Float or Sink Bath Time
Use senses to notice differences in objects, draw comparisons, and develop counting skills.

Homemade Butter
Learn property transformation and learn about the food chain.

Houseplants
Learn emotional intelligence and about botany, observation, documentation, hypothesis-making, and data collection.

Juice Pops
Learn about changing properties of a liquid and motor skills.

Leaf Collection
Practice observation, classification, and documentation while learning about characteristics of different types of trees.

Man on Moon
Strengthen observation and documentation skills, use sympols to represent objects, and strenghten your child-parent bond.

Marbelized Gift Wrap
Develop emotional, artistic, and scientific skills.

Milk Colors
Explore color, texture, and shape, and science skills, while observing changes in physical properties.

Oatmeal Roll
Work on small muscle development, math skills, and science.

Painting the House
Learn about evaporation while exploring emotions and developing small and large muscles.

Picture Blocks
Learn about cause and effect and how to compare shape and weight while working on physical and language development.

Play Dough
Discover the changing properties of matter, experience sensory exploration, and work with measurements.

Rain Gauge
Learn how to record observations and verbalize thoughts and use skills such as measuring and charting.

Restaurant Rescue Box
Work on small muscle development and motor skills.

Science Collections
Enhance observation skills, including the ability to recognize and see similarities and difference in objects.

Water Toys
Learn about gravity and volume.