Kindergarten - 5th Grade Plants Activities

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

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!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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

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.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

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.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

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

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

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

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

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.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

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!