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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Got a kid who loves fashion? Help her develop her own unique style with this tie-dye project using natural dyes.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

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!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Kids of all ages will delight in making these jumbo "cupcake" crayons from all of the broken crayon stubs that seem to pile up around the house.

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

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.