Have you ever made a science table in your home for your kids? We offer these simple guidelines for how to make a hands-on table for kids to explore. Kids Activities Blog loves open-ended learning and interactive science.
Science Table
An indoor science table in a perfect learning spot for children. Recently this texture themed science table was set up on my son’s work table. He loves nature and explore the outdoors. The science table brought elements from the outdoors inside for him to observe and investigate. I selected texture as the table’s theme. There are so many different textures that can be found in just our own backyard. Each of the nature elements presents a different texture that we have seen or heard about in our yard or neighborhood.
What can be found on the science table above?- Leaves
- Plastic Container with magnifier
- Bark
- Magnifying glass
- Plastic snake ( We have seen are real one and I don’t think I would bring one in the house if we had. They are in our neighborhood.)
- Twigs
- Gift bag with a snake skin texture
- Crayons
- Paper
- Real live pictures of textures featured.
- The leaves can be observed in the container with a magnifying glass lid or the magnifying glass.
- The leaves can be placed under paper and a rubbing can be done of them with a crayon.
- The bark can be observed with or without the magnifying glass.

Hands On
- The bark and the sticks can be described based on its feel, sound or view.

Interactive Science
- The snake textured bag can have rubbing done of it as can the rubber snake.
- The pictures of textures found outdoors can be talked about and observed.

My son really loves having an indoor science center. I hope you will try one out at your house. I bet your children will too.
Thank you for sharing our nature table. It really is so nice to have a dedicated space for our nature collections. About a month a go we moved to our new home, a much smaller home, and so I am thinking about how we can still have a nature collection…we don’t have room for the large table anymore. I really like the idea of a science table and might be able to incorporate our nature collections into something like that.