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.

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

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

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!

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

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

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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?

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

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

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.

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

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

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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!

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!