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Science learning in early childhood is very important to develop all aspects of child development. Learning about science will encourage children to be more creative and critical, but based on our exploration study, there are some problems in science learning. The most crucial problem is the lack of teacher competence in teaching science that is appropriate to children development. Story and Science Experiment to Develop Scientific Attitude of Children is a model to solve that problem. Story in this model is a short story which describes the process of science. Science experiment is an activity doing by the children to practice the process of science. A scientific attitude can be defined as way of viewing things, a curiosity to know how and why things happen with an open mind and governed by facts. There are six scientific attitudes that are developed in this model, they are curiosity, creativity, problem solving, confidence, environmental awareness, and cooperation. This model has twenty stories and science experiments, they are written in 20 flip charts. This model was tried out on 100 Kindergarten respondents, that are divided into experiment and control group. The result of this try out showed that, this model was effective to develop scientific attitude. Based on t independent test, the t value is 12,511 with the p-value 0,000. Because of the p-value 0,000 <  (0,05), so it could be concluded that there is a significant deference of scientific attitude between experiment and control group after using Story and Science Experiment to Develop Scientific Attitude of Children Model. This model has been implemented in some Early Childhood Education Institutions in Central Java.