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

Being a kid is hard work. Soothe stresses and calm fears with this DIY Zen garden -- all you need is sand, stones and a shoebox.

If your mom loves gardening and plants, make her a Mother's Day garden decoration perfect for displaying in her yard!

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.

Celebrate Dad with this decorative stepping stone for your garden!

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Enchant your garden with flower fairies and let their beauty bloom with this charming fairy craft.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

These unique paving block critters let kids unleash their creative side on one of the "squarest" garden supplies in stores.

Using hard boiled eggs, leaves and tempera paint, your child can create a delicate garden print decoration on Easter eggs.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

By selecting a pattern and carefully repeating it on the entire surface of a pumpkin, your child will transform a simple garden vegetable into a work of art.

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.

Want to make your own version of the Hollywood walk of fame in your own garden? Immortalize your child's handiwork by creating a cement handprint craft.

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

You don't need a garden to enjoy flowers. This first grade activity let's you make a lovely bouquet for Valentine's Day

Looking for a fun way to remember your child's small handprints that doesn't involve tired turkeys or tubs of wet cement?

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

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!

Make cards this May Day celebrating the arrival of springtime.

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

This arts and crafts project isn't just full of creativity, it's got a lot to teach kids about world cultures as well.

Introduce your child to the concept of the melting pot by decorating a patriotic 4th of July planter.

Make a beautiful - and realistic looking - sunflower using sunflower seeds and a paper plate with this fun kindergarten arts and crafts project.

Show your love of nature with this pretty vase made with vines. It will be perfect for holding a floral bouquet!

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.