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!

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

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

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

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

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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

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

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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.

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.

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

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

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

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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!

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

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

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!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

In the mood for a bit of silly science? Help your child create a truly one-of-a-kind planter out of a potato head!