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Preschool science activities for kids, science experiments and other pre k learning activities.

Preschool Science Activities & Science Experiments For Kids

Preschool science activities make for great learning and preschool ideas for your preschool children & toddlers. Preschool science experiments can be fun, and your preschoolers will soon learn that there are lots of fun science activities for preschool that demonstrate scientific ideas and teach kids to observe and experiment with various things, while learning how they work.

Preschool time is about having fun while learning and getting involved in preschool activities that help to develop different early learning skills and functions within your preschool child. Preschool science activities, science experiments, & science lesson plans activities for preschool can be great ways to teach your kids at home or in preschool classrooms.

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*Check Out All our Preschool Science Activities & Activities for Preschool In this science section of our prek learning website.

Static Electricity - Science Experiment For Kids

Preschool Science Activities

Preschool Science Activity Requires:

One balloon, OR a plastic comb. (This science experiment can work with both)

A piece of string or thread

Small pieces of dry 'O' shaped oat cereal.

Science Activity Instructions:

• Cut the piece of string approximately 12-16 inches long. Tie a piece of the cereal to one end of the string.

Tie or tape the other piece of string to the middle of a door way or edge of a table. (Try to find a place that will allow the cereal to dangle freely with no obstructions in the way).

• Wash the comb with hot soapy water and dry completely.

• Run the comb through long dry hair about 10 times, OR rub the comb quickly on a woolly sweater. (The comb will now be charged with static).

• Starting from either the left or right side, bring the comb towards the cereal nice and slow and stop as you see the cereal swing towards and touch the comb. Keep the comb still and hold it, and now wait and watch until the cereal moves away by it self.

• Move the comb and then try to touch the piece of cereal again. The cereal should move away this time as you get close to the cereal.

What We Can Learn from this Preschool Science Experiment:

When the comb or balloon was rubbed onto your clothing/hair it came to have a negative charge as electrons now went from your hair/clothing to the balloon/comb.

The hanging cereal was neutral and was attracted to the negative charge. The electrons went from the comb/balloon to the cereal when they touched.

This made both objects come to have the same negative charge which in turn caused the cereal to move away or repel from the comb/balloon.

Crayon Science - Preschool Science Activities

If you have preschool children who like to color than you probably have a whole bunch of little odds and ends pieces of wax crayons all over.

A great way to get rid of them and teach your pre k children a FUN preschool science activity is found below.

*PLEASE USE EXTREME CAUTION WTH THIS ACTIVITY*

How to Start The Preschool Science Activity:

Have your children or preschoolers prepare for this science experiment and gather all the little pieces of wax crayons that they have laying around and are not using.

Please ensure crayons are 'Non-Toxic' (most are for safety of your children and are labelled as such)

Science Experiment Preparation:

CAUTION:

*Careful Adult Supervision is required around Hot stoves and Hot Wax!

Preschoolers / Children should ONLY be observing at this point!

Lightly grease an old pot with cooking spray or oil on the inner bottom and sides.

Take the paper off of the crayons if there is still paper on them.

Place crayons inside and on a very low heat melt the different pieces of wax crayons together.

*Show the children or preschoolers how the crayons are melting, but keep them away from surfaces that can burn them or that are hot.

Ensure that children understand that stoves and burners are very dangerous and they can get hurt, and to NEVER Play with them!

Once Crayon Wax Is Melted:

Once the wax crayons have melted, pour the melted crayon wax into old lightly greased (oil, cooking spray) ice cube trays or other odd shaped items that may act as molds. (old film canisters, old ice cube trays etc..)

You could even use wax paper across a counter or table (up safely away from the little children while the wax cools) and can pour the melted wax into 'old' cookie cutter shapes that you no longer intend to use for baking. (*Dollar stores are great places to get these types of cookie cutter shapes)

Have them visible so the prek children can watch them and see when they become firm and solid.

Once the molds have set, pop them out and watch your children have tons of fun, as if they just received a brand new box of crayons.

*The multicolored shapes/solids are so fun for preschoolers, toddlers & children to draw and color with.

The children have just experienced a fun preschool science activity and can enjoy using it through a creative art experience.

Have fun with this kids science activity!

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