Light activities

Learn how to make a light box and try out some cool colr and light experiments with your kids! This is a fun experiment that kids love.

These hands-on light experiments for first grade kids are fun, engaging, and aligned to the NGSS. Each science lab teaches children something unique about how light behaves, while introducing them to key vocabulary such as refract, reflect, transparent, translucent, and opaque. Click through to the blog post to grab lots of ideas for your lesson planning. You'll find plenty of book recommendations and student activities to help you get started. Let's go!

24 Ways to Play and Learn About Concepts Related to Light - night and day, sun, shadows, etc. Includes related story book suggestions

Five senses science experiments for kids to learn about light and the sense of seeing: reflection, prism, UV light, ... Fun STEM activities for science class, science fair, science camp, for kids all ages #iGameMomSTEM

Color Mixing with Lights with a printable worksheet set! This is an easy STEM experiment that combines science and technology. Do you know the primary colors of light?

We did some fun and educational Light and Shadow experiment to learn about shadows. You can also use these shadow activities to show kids how light moves and changes throughout the day. #lightandshadowexperiment #lightandshadowactivityforkids #lightshadowactivity

Shadows are formed when light is blocked by an object. On sunny days, shadows of ourselves, trees, houses, and many more are visible. The light from the sun helps create these darker areas. Explore this fact through these ten enlightening shadow activities that are exciting and interesting for young children.

Winter Science for Kids: Explore light and colors by making rainbow reflections using a CD and paper snowflakes! #buggyandbuddy #winterscience #scienceforkids #papersnowflakes #wintercrafts #rainbows #rainbowscience #lightscience

Shape Learning Flashlight Craft. Learning preschool activity. Get the printable template.

Light up their imaginations like the starry night sky! All you need to turn a regular flashlight into a glowing display is black construction paper, cupcake liners from Publix, rubber bands, a glue stick, scissors, and a star-shaped hole punch. It is the perfect five-minute craft to create hours of fun adventures. #flashlight

7 ideas to teach students about light, reflection, and refraction

All of Play to Learn Preschool's light table activities and ideas in one convenient place for you! via @PlayToLearnPS

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Perfect glow in the dark activities for kids! Children will see magic as the ice lights up the colors for a glowing effect. Great for sensory play and hands on learning activities! #glowinthedark #sensoryactivities #paintingactivities

Kristen | Play-based Learning on Instagram: "Rainbow Shadows Experiment Here’s an easy STEM activity to try with your little ones: Simply prop up 3 flashlights that are pointed at a white wall. Place red, green and blue @connetix_tiles magnetic tiles in front of each flashlight and adjust to make a white light. Unlike paint, when you mix all the colors of light you get white. For those that are interested in the science behind this, our eyes have three different cones that roughly…

These ten activities will allow children to understand that they can see things and different colors clearly because of light. Let children explore the various light sources with these fantastic activities that challenge their minds.

Glow Painting! 1. Carefully pop off the back of a Sharpie accents highlighter using a knife. Yellow or green works best. 2. Pull out the innards, and cut the plastic. Be careful, it's messy! 3. Put it in half a plastic cup of water. 4. Turn on the blacklight, turn off the lights, and give those kids some white paper!