Showing Results for dig it rocks soil

This fun and easy middle school science fair project idea explores the topic of pollution and demonstrates if polluted soil affect the growth of green plants.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

Here's a way to make history both interesting and relevant: design a garden using plants that were used by people in colonial times!

The goal of this middle school science fair project is to examine the effect of caffeine on plant growth.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Boys might wrinkle their noses at the thought of gardening, but we guarantee they'll like this activity! Make a recycled terrarium full of bug-eating plants.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

This science fair project idea identifies and understands adaptations in birds.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.