CLASS 31 · PRESCHOOL AGES 4–5

Science, Nature & Discovery

Age 4–5 YearsClass 31Adventures 30 science gamesSubjects Plants · animals · weather · light · sound

Explore plants, animals, weather, habitats, light, sound, water, and everyday science through playful discovery activities. Thirty draw-on-the-picture adventures — every one played on its own science illustration, with plain written instructions and a printable worksheet twin in the Science worksheet library.

Predictions to make, insects to count, magnets to test, habitats to match and one graduation lab — every question is one big picture your child draws right on.

Meet the adventures Science is best in short, curious sittings.

PLAY · THE 30 SCIENCE ADVENTURES

Thirty science adventures.

Start anywhere curiosity points. The shelves run in a gentle order — grow first, graduate last — but every game stands alone. Each adventure twins with a printable worksheet at /worksheets/science/.

1. Grow and change

Seeds, butterflies and the water cycle — number the steps of how things grow and travel.

Four boxes show a plant’s growth — seeds in soil, a small sprout, a taller seedling, and a tall sunflower — each with an empty number square below.

1. Bunny’s Plant Growth LabHow plants growPlay

2. Weather, water and light

Dress for the weather, catch a rainbow, sort sink from float.

Three weather cards — sunny, rainy and snowy — beside three outfit cards: a warm winter coat with mittens and boots, a raincoat with an umbrella, and a sun hat with sunglasses.

2. Penguin’s Weather LabWeather and what we wearPlay

Six animal cards: butterfly, spider, ladybug, snail, ant and earthworm.

3. Fox’s Bug DetectiveWhat makes an insectPlay

Six object cards — a wooden cube, a metal spoon, a cork, a stone, a toy boat and a metal key — above a water tub with a FLOAT bin and a SINK bin.

4. Bear’s Sink or Float LabPredict and testPlay

Three animals — a bird, a bee and a rabbit — beside three homes: an underground rabbit burrow, a bird nest in a tree, and a beehive.

5. Turtle’s Animal HomesAnimals and habitatsPlay

Four scenes: a boy playing football in the sun, a child sleeping under a moon, butterflies and flowers in daylight, and an owl on a branch at night.

6. Owl’s Day and Night DiscoveryDay and nightPlay

Three light clues — a prism splitting light, a flashlight beam, and a sunlit dinosaur — beside three result pictures: a shadow, a rainbow, and a bright circle.

7. Fox’s Rainbow Light LabWhat light doesPlay

3. Leaves, ocean and senses

Match leaves to trees, find ocean friends, and put all five senses to work.

Three leaves — an oak leaf, a maple leaf and pine needles — beside three trees: pine, oak and maple.

8. Squirrel’s Leaf DetectiveLeaves and treesPlay

Six animal cards: dolphin, camel, sea turtle, lion, octopus and clownfish.

9. Dolphin’s Ocean DiscoveryOcean habitatsPlay

Five sense organs — eye, ear, nose, tongue and hand — beside five hedgehog scenes: smelling a flower, touching a teddy bear, looking at a rainbow, hearing a bell, and tasting watermelon.

10. Hedgehog’s Five Senses LabThe five sensesPlay

4. Magnets, seasons and life cycles

Mysteries of the magnet, the four seasons, and how a butterfly grows.

Six object cards — a steel paper clip, an iron nail, a steel washer, a wooden pencil, a plastic spoon and a rubber eraser — with an ATTRACTS bin and a DOES NOT ATTRACT bin.

11. Bear’s Magnet MysteryMagnets attract metalPlay

Four season chips — spring, summer, autumn, winter — beside four tree pictures: falling colourful leaves, green leaves and sunshine, blossoms and buds, and a bare snowy tree.

12. Penguin’s Seasons DiscoveryThe four seasonsPlay

Four boxes show a butterfly’s life cycle — an adult butterfly, eggs on a leaf, a caterpillar eating a leaf, and a green chrysalis — each with an empty number square below.

13. Butterfly’s Life CycleLife cyclesPlay

Three animals — a duck, a cat and a horse — beside three prints: a hoofprint, a pawprint and a webbed footprint.

14. Raccoon’s Footprint HuntAnimal trackingPlay

5. Ice, living things and care

Melting ice, living or not, and what every plant needs.

A polar bear in a lab coat beside a bowl with a large ice cube under a smiling sun; three answer cards: liquid water, a rock, and a larger ice cube.

15. Polar Bear’s Ice LabMelting and statesPlay

Six picture cards: a tree, a toy car, a butterfly, a rock, a baby rabbit and a wooden chair.

16. Panda’s Living or Nonliving DiscoveryLiving and nonlivingPlay

Three rows: a teddy bear, an airplane and a toy dinosaur, each with three shadow choices labelled A, B and C.

17. Owl’s Shadow ScienceLight and shadowsPlay

An elephant watering a potted seedling, with six option cards: water, sunlight, air, candy, a toy car, and shoes.

18. Elephant’s Plant Care LabWhat plants needPlay

6. Food, sound and recycling

Animal lunches, instrument sounds and the recycling bins.

Three animals — a rabbit, a lion and a panda — beside three foods: bamboo leaves, meat, and grass and leafy plants.

19. Lion’s Animal Food LabWhat animals eatPlay

Three instruments — a drum, a bell and a guitar — beside three actions: plucking guitar strings, striking a drum, and ringing a bell.

20. Monkey’s Sound LabHow sounds are madePlay

Six clean items — a newspaper, a cardboard box, a plastic water bottle, a plastic detergent bottle, an aluminium drink can and a clean steel food can — above three recycling bins: paper, plastic and metal.

21. Turtle’s Recycling MissionRecycling sortingPlay

7. Journeys and directions

Seeds that travel, the water cycle, Earth’s day side and a compass.

Three seeds — dandelion seeds, a coconut and a burdock burr — beside three travel cards: animal fur, water, and wind.

22. Squirrel’s Seed Travel DiscoveryHow seeds travelPlay

Three labelled panels — rain over a landscape, evaporation with the sun and rising vapour, and cloud formation — each with an empty number square below.

23. Hippo’s Water Cycle LabThe water cyclePlay

An astronaut owl watches the sun shine on the left side of a globe; the right side is dark with stars. Two answer cards: the left side of Earth, or the right side.

24. Owl’s Earth and Sun DiscoveryDay, night and EarthPlay

A fox beside a big compass with four arrows, and four direction words: east, north, west, south.

25. Fox’s Compass AdventureDirectionsPlay

8. Camouflage, wind and the castle

Hidden animals, wind power, lost habitats — and the graduation lab.

Three habitat photos — green leaves, tree bark and snow — above a row of small animal cards: grasshopper, butterflies, ladybugs, a stick insect, a bee, a white rabbit and a frog.

26. Chameleon’s Camouflage HuntCamouflagePlay

An elephant scientist beside six items: a pinwheel, a rock, a kite, a brick, a feather and a heavy anvil.

27. Elephant’s Air Power LabWind and moving thingsPlay

Four animals — a camel, a polar bear, a frog and a monkey — beside four places: a tropical rainforest, a freshwater pond, a sandy desert, and arctic sea ice and snow.

28. Panda’s Habitat RescueMatching habitatsPlay

Four picture cards — a steaming bowl of soup, a bowl of ice cubes, a mug of cocoa with marshmallows, and a blue popsicle — each with HOT and COLD circles.

29. Penguin’s Hot and Cold LabHot and coldPlay

Three numbered puzzle cards: plant growth with seed and sprout, an animal habitat with a polar bear, and sink or float with a boat — each with three lettered answers.

30. Owl’s Science GraduationThe grand science challengePlay

All 30 adventures are playable and printed today — Class 31 is complete, every game audited against its own artwork before it shipped.

TAKE IT OFF SCREEN

Science play at the kitchen table.

Drop a spoon and a cork in the bath (04). Melt an ice cube on the windowsill (15). Raid the recycling with a magnet (11, 21). Grow a bean in a jam jar (01, 18). Blow a dandelion and watch the seeds fly (22). Every game here has a real experiment hiding inside it — the picture is the invitation.

SUPPORTING RESOURCE · EXPLORE SCIENCE FLASHCARDS

Explore the Science Flashcards.

The thirty adventures above teach HOW to explore — predict, test, draw and try again. The flashcard collection teaches WHAT each idea means: what an ant trail is, why rain falls, where a shadow comes from, how a magnet pulls without touching.

Every card gives grown-ups a plain-words why-it-matters note and a two-minute experiment to try at home. Open one before or after its matching adventure — the words make the play make sense.

Open the 35 Science Flashcards

The cover of the Science, Nature & Discovery flashcard collection — thirty-five printable science idea cards for ages 4–5.

A NOTE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

For the grown-ups.

Early science is predicting, testing and talking — never a quiz. Every game here asks your child to commit to a guess first, and every miss brings a friendly explanation instead of a penalty. The say-lines are written so YOU can steal them for bath time and walks.

The worksheets are the paper twins — the same experiments with room to predict, circle and draw. Browse the science worksheets and print the adventure your child loved. Playing games never marks a class complete; only real game finishes do, and only for the child chosen in My Classroom.

What a scientist!

Every solved experiment builds the curiosity real science stands on. The shelves remember where you left off for your chosen child.

Play more Science Adventures Print the science worksheets Learning Path

FLASHCARDS

Prefer printed cards?

The cards from this class also live in the flashcards library — every card has its own page with the picture, the words to say together and a download button, ready for away-from-screen time.

Open the Science, Nature & Discovery flashcards