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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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:

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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