Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Preserve some precious memories this Mother's Day! Make a shoe planter out of that old pair of your child's favorite shoes.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

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

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

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Create a face of a person or animal on a small terra cotta flower pot and grow herbs or a flowered plant for their hair! As the herbs grow, the hair grows.

Tu B'Shevat is a Jewish holiday during which the "new year" for trees is celebrated. In this activity your child will paint a pot to grow his own plant.

Try hammering some plants with your kids to teach them a valuable lesson in flower science while making beautiful artwork in the process!

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

Put some spring back in the season and teach your child a little about plants with this fun paper flower art project!

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!

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.

Hand-painted pottery is the perfect way to add a bit of decoration to your potted plants.

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

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

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.

Introduce your little one to the joys of gardening with this adorable do-it-yourself planter made from clothespins.

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

This hanging wall pot made from homemade clay is a perfect arts and crafts activity for preschoolers.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.