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.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

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.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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.

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

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

Teaching your child some basic words in Spanish is a breeze at home, with this simple and fun activity that doesn't require special educational materials.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Plants need water to grow. In this project we learn how plants transport water from their roots to their leaves

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

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

Your youngster can explore the parts of a face while creating this ghoulish Halloween zombie head sandwich!

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

In this activity, your child will learn about how focusing on positive feelings, like love and peace, helps these feelings grow. They will also decorate pots and plant seeds as a reminder of this.

One of the most important parts of any Christmas tree is what's on top. This year, have your child make an angel that'll put the finishing touch on your tree!

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

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.

Hand-painted pottery is the perfect way to add a bit of decoration to your potted plants.

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

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

Introduce your little one to the joys of gardening with this adorable do-it-yourself planter made from clothespins.

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

Help your curious kid cut through the clutter and collect the facts with a simple and fun science foldable.