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.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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.

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

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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

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.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

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

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.