Learning is a process that continues outside of school. When the kids are home and you’re looking for something fun and educational to do, science offers many options. Children can experience hands-on learning about the weather, nature and chemistry. Being involved in your children’s learning helps prepare them to be avid learners and develop fundamental problem-solving, critical thinking and resourcefulness skills.

We’ve compiled a list of fun and exciting science activities and experiments to do at home. These easy science experiments for children require limited materials — including many you may already have in the house.

Science Activities for Children

Science is all around us, and children are curious. Kids question why the sky is blue and why their popsicle melts so fast in the sun. It may be challenging finding answers to their “Why” questions, so sometimes an activity can help demonstrate.

Children can stay active while learning about different scientific topics when you set up science activities and experiments for them to do at home. Science experiments at home are equally fun as science activities. You begin with a question or hypothesis that needs answering, and then a process is followed to find the answer. For example, kids can ask a question like “How does ice affect salt?” and then experiment to see what happens. 

Here are a couple of easy science activities to do at home that will pique your children’s curious minds and get them experimenting:

1. Change Milk Into Different Colors

Milk contains fats and proteins that react differently when the solution changes. For this activity, pour milk, dish soap and food coloring on a dish to see how the milk fats break down.

2. Build Animals or Plants Out of LEGO® Bricks

Playing with LEGO® Bricks sparks children’s imaginations to create whatever they see. You could ask your child to make a dog out of the bricks and then tell them some facts about dogs. LEGO® Bricks offer many learning opportunities for kids.

3. Make Ice Cream 

You can make ice cream by using a plastic bag, cream, salt and ice. Salt lowers the freezing point of water and ice absorbs heat from its surroundings. As a result, heat gets pulled from the cream and the ice cream starts to form. When you do this activity, kids will see how the ice melting freezes the cream. And once it’s over, kids will have a delicious treat that shows their hard work. 

4. Create Oobleck

Oobleck is a substance that is solid when hit with force, but once something disrupts the surface, it becomes liquid — all from the magic of just corn starch and water. Kids will have fun as they discover different ways to keep the oobleck solid or make it liquid.

Science Is Fun With Bricks 4 Kidz

There are many ways to learn about science. By participating in these science activities and experiments to do at home, kids learn why something happens and how they can find solutions to familiar or interesting problems.

Bricks 4 Kidz provides STEM activities for kids. Sign your children up for our fun courses in STEM, where they can learn coding, robotics and more.

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