Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

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.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

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

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

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.