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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

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.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

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

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

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!