Materials worksheets
Blindfold Tasting Game
Encourage your child to use their sense of taste and descriptive skills to work out which food they are eating when blindfolded.
Design a toy
Work with your child to draw a design for a toy using labels. Your child can then make the toy and invite someone to play-test it.
Materials treasure hunt
Encourage your child to find soft and hard objects around the house and then record what they found.
Sorting materials: soft and hard
Encourage your child to feel a variety of objects and then sort them according to whether they are soft or hard.
Sorting toys
An activity involving sorting toys according to a criteria discussed between you and your child.
Changing materials investigation
A practical activity for children to test what happens when they stretch, bend, squash and twist different materials.
Compare two materials
A worksheet to help your child choose two materials, then consider similarities and differences between the two, as well as considering their uses.
Materials and their properties
A grid for you and your child to record what you find out about the properties of different materials.
Natural or man-made
Worksheet to prompt your child to consider whether different objects are natural or man-made.
Be a scientist
This activity will develop your child's imagination and design skills.
Sorting materials into sets
A worksheet with boxes for sorting different materials into sets according to their properties.
Find and label materials
This activity will teach your child the different properties of many common materials and help them identify why they are used.
Materials to build a house
This worksheet encourages children to think about what materials they would need to build a house and why.
Investigating and comparing materials
Develop your child's understanding of materials and their different properties.
Select material properties
A worksheet to help your child think about the properties of different materials, with prompt words at the bottom.
What material is it made of?
Your child will develop their knowledge of materials and their properties with this fun to do worksheet.
Useful gases around us
A worksheet encouraging your child to research into how different gases are used to help us in everyday life.
Learning about materials
This Key Stage 1 science download is about the characteristics of materials and will help your child to think about why we use materials the way we do in constructing everyday objects.
The properties of different materials
This kids' science activity looks at the properties of fabrics.
It is aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils and should be done with a parent or carer.
It is aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils and should be done with a parent or carer.
Blindfold Feeling Game
Help your child to use their sense of touch to feel different hard and soft objects and then try to guess what they are.