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.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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!

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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!

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

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

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.

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

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

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

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.

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

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

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

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.

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

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

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

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

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

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

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