Does putting soapy water on plants help or hinder plant growth? Kids learn about greywater and how it affects plant growth in this cool science fair project.

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

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!

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?

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

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

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

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

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

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

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.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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

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!

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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!

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

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

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 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.