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

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

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

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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!

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!

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