Quick Click: 9 Ideas for a Home Science Center
Encourage your preschooler's natural curiosity about the world around him by keeping science-related materials handy.
Some to try:
- magnifying glasses, plastic mirrors, and prisms
- flashlights and colored cellophane
- magnets
- twigs, leaves, nuts, seeds, eggshells, feathers, and shells
- stones, minerals, and fossils
- lotto games and matching cards of plants and animals
- plants — try small cacti in sand, ferns in peat moss, and dwarf citrus trees in sandy loam
- empty bird or insect nests
- beans, grains, rice, and coffee beans for sorting and exploring
