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

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

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!

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!

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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.

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.

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

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!

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!

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

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.

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.

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.