Let’s Go On a Material Properties Scavenger Hunt!

Make your materials unit active, hands‑on, and full of discovery with this set of printable Material Properties Scavenger Hunt worksheets. Designed for early‑years learners, these activity sheets encourage students to explore their surroundings—both at school and at home to find real‑world examples of materials with different properties.

With these Material Properties Scavenger Hunt worksheets will investigate objects around them and identify whether they are stiff or flexible, hard or soft, and rough or smooth.

Properties of Materials Activity for School and Home

This Properties of Materials Activity Pack includes six worksheets (three for school use and three for homework at home) so students can compare materials in different environments.

Students will:

• search for objects that match each property
• record or draw what they find

Download This Active Material World Activity for Early Years

Your Material World Activity pack includes:

• 3 school scavenger hunt worksheets
• 3 home scavenger hunt worksheets

This resource is available in both PDF and editable Google Slides format.  To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and choose your preferred file type.

This resource was created by Brittany Kellogg, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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