Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

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.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

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.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

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.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

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!

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.