🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 🔬 Scientific Method — Even a simple experiment teaches the predict-test-observe cycle that is the foundation of scientific thinking — and preschoolers who internalize this process approach problems with genuine scientific confidence.
• 📝 Recording & Documentation — Drawing what they observe, recording measurements, and noting results gives children their first experience of scientific documentation — and connects science to literacy and numeracy in an authentic context.
• 🔍 Observation Skills — Paying close attention to what happens during an experiment — noting colors, textures, movements, and changes — builds the observational precision that all scientific and analytical work requires.
• 🌱 Curiosity & Wonder — Science that feels like magic cultivates the sense of wonder that keeps children asking questions throughout their lives — the foundational attitude that drives all learning and discovery.

Your preschooler is never too young to start doing simple preschool experiments. These science experiments for your preschooler were designed with them in mind, to start fostering a love for science. While some of these experiments may be a little messy, these science activities are great ways for your preschooler to start learning how the world works around them.

Featured Preschool Science Experiments

Movement of Water - Paper Towel Art
Create paper towel art with your preschooler and teach them about the movement of water at the same time. Water moves from areas of greater concentration to areas of less concentration and it likes to move along and into fibrous areas, like a paper towel. Teach your preschooler this concept and create art for fridge with this fun preschool science experiment. 

Preschool Science Experiment - Mother's Day Perfume
Have your preschooler create your own perfume fragrance with this easy and fun preschool science experiment. Using products around your own home, you and your preschooler can make a fun mother’s day gift for a mother or grandmother and learn something about science. 

Preschool Science Experiment - Dried Fruit Taste Test
With fresh apricots, peaches, mangos and plums during the summer, it’s easy to get your preschooler to eat enough fruits. But what about during the winter? During the winter you can try giving your preschooler dried fruit (with no sugar added).  But does dried fruit taste different than fresh fruit? You and your preschooler can answer that question with this fun and easy preschool science experiment. 

Preschool Science Experiment - How to Dry Fruits
Does your preschooler know that raisins are actually dried grapes? How about that prunes are actually dried plums? Have they tried banana or apple crisps? With this fun and easy preschool science experiment, you can learn how to dry fruit in the oven. 

Preschool Science Experiment - Evaporation
Does your preschooler wonder what happens to rain or snow after a storm? Do they understand about evaporation? With this fun and easy preschool science experiment, they will learn all about evaporation and what happens to rain and snow on hot days.

Preschool Science Experiments - Age Coins with your Preschooler
Have you or your preschooler ever wondered why coins change color over time? With this fun and easy preschool science experiment, you and your preschooler can actually speed up that process. Using this preschool science experiment, you can create 'pirate booty' for your pirate-loving preschooler.   

Featured Preschool Experiments Books

Science Play!: Beginning Discoveries for 2-To 6-Year-Olds (Williamson Little Hands Series)

This is a fun and easy book for preschoolers who want to learn more about science. Science Play contains lots of easy science experiments geared to teach preschoolers basic science concepts. A big plus for parents and preschool educators are that the ingredients for the experiments are easy to find around the house or classroom. Preschool educators will find this book essential for teaching preschoolers basic science concepts.

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Hi! I'm Theresa Halvorsen, the preschool science and nature writer for Preschoolrock.com. I have twin boys and am blown away by their fascination with preschool science and how the world works around them. I am always looking for fun and simple science activities so preschoolers can learn about science and the natural world. Please contact me with any suggestions, ideas or questions you have about this site.

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