Preschool Science Activities:

Ideas For Home School Fun

Preschool science activities and ideas are the perfect way to light up your child's interest in the world around them. Homeschool science builds on your child's natural curiosity and sense of wonder which forms the basis of all scientific knowledge.

If you're worried about not knowing enough to teach science, as many homeschooling parents fear, I can assure you that actually science is easier to teach at home than at school. Have a look at our Free Homeschooling Curriculum: Home School Science to see ideas from making sugar crystals to trying out a Does it float or does it sink? experiment with homeschool unit studies.

Home School Preschool Activity Ideas

You'll know that activities where you hide things for your preschool child to discover are always great fun. Our homeschooling preschool science activity ideas build on one of the delights that particularly appeal to preschoolers - the treasure hunt.

You'll be using the hunting instinct to build in all sorts of preschool science ideas and activities. There are lots of ways to do this homeschool preschool activity - just pick the one which seems most fun to your child.

And what could be more fun for homeschool preschool activity ideas than starting out by digging up dinosaurs?

All preschoolers love dinosaurs and they provide the key which opens the door to all sorts of fascinating homeschool science. How long ago did they live? Was T-Rex really that big?

Before you know it your preschool science activity will have covered all sorts of vital scientific information in your home school - and your preschoolers will be having so much fun no one will notice!

Dig Up Dinosaur Science Kit Activity

There are lots of home school kits to choose from and, so long as you're on hand, you can use common sense with the age ranges - our homeschooling Velociraptor was hidden in a sand block from the Smithsonian.

The key to making these ideas home school fun is to provide some professional equipment to go with the kit - a magnifying glass, some goggles, (we used ski goggles), and, if you have a small one suitable for preschoolers, a homeschool hammer.

You'll be amazed how many ideas this homeschool preschool science activity covers. Can you identify the skull and backbone? How do they fit together? You can even show your preschoolers a quick slide show of how the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History made a real cast of a fossilised Stegosaurus.

There are lots more preschool ideas to add to this homeschool activity on our page on Homeschooling Science Dinosaur Kids Activity. You could make a homeschool dinosaur egg or, if you really want to bring science to life, your preschoolers can buy a real pet Triops and see a live creature who once lived in the age of the dinosaurs.

Free Preschool Activities

You don't have to buy a kit to learn home school science. And you don't have to restrict your homeschooling ideas to dinosaurs either! You're bound to have lots of natural history objects in your home. Why not set up a homeschooling science treasure trail activity?

You could use home school shells from the beach, feathers, an ostrich egg, a shark's tooth, any bones you may have collected. If you hide them for your preschoolers to find they will learn all sorts of homeschool science as they try to identify them.

You can do the unsophisticated version of this homeschooling activity and hide objects round the house for your preschoolers to find. But you'll find it rather more exciting if you follow these preschool science activities and ideas for home school:

Homeschooling Touch And Feel Science Box

Take a sealed cardboard box and make a hole just big enough for a preschoolers hand to go in it. You can add extra preschool science fun to this homeschooling activity by getting your preschoolers to wear a blindfold as they feel for the objects.

The aim of this home school activity is to get your preschoolers to describe the object before they pull it out. What does it feel like? Is it tickly or smooth?

You can add lots of preschool science ideas into this homeschool activity as you work out what the object is and why it looks the way it does.

Homeschool Archeological Dig

Take a cardboard box and lay your home school natural history objects flat on the bottom. Cover with homeschool play sand.

It helps to get your preschoolers in the mood for homeschooling science activities if you can come up with ideas that make them feel like a real scientist. Your main scientific implement for this home school archeological dig will be a paint brush to uncover the objects, but a homeschool magnifying glass is fun too.

Preschool science activities can get a bit out of hand; if you don't want all your objects discovered in a frenzy of excitement I suggest you try our homeschooling ideas to calm things down:

Allocate one quarter of the box as the start of your homeschooling dig. Move on only when all the objects have been uncovered and correctly identified by your preschoolers.

We had a piece of real whale baleen from a dead beached whale in our homeschool preschool science activities box; rather tricky for preschoolers to identify so we tried it out on adults instead!

Preschool Science Ideas

It's nice to get your preschoolers involved in actually making a science treasure hunt activity for themselves.

William and Catherine loved tearing up pieces of colored paper to bury their own plastic dinosaurs in our home school science activity. We even stretched the boundaries of homeschooling preschool science a little and uncovered a dinosaur nest full of chocolate eggs.

You'll find we adopt a similar approach to preschool learning activities by making math fun in our page on homeschooling Preschool Math Activities.

And your preschoolers can come and have fun with art activities and ideas in our homeschooling Preschool Art Activities.

Imagination is all you need to join this fun preschool activity as you fly the world with these homeschooling Free Preschool Activities.

The exciting thing to notice when you're doing home school science is that your preschoolers will naturally come up with all sort of ideas and questions of their own.

William got fascinated with teeth and what animals eat. Before you know it you're talking about mammals and carnivores - and you'll soon cover a lot more than any of those questions that appear in preschool science workbooks in school.

If you don't believe me, have a go at these fun homeschool preschool science activities and ideas and find out for yourself!

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