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Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Unlike other seed sprouting projects, this one allows kids to compare five different sprouts (either 5 herbs or 5 flowers) by watching them grow in a glove.

Looking for a way to channel your spring fever? Create a beautiful spring centerpiece with your child!

Help your first grader emboss his own design reminiscent of Middle Ages metalwork. Using foil and a wooden stylus, he'll create pretty springtime flower images.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity and surprise someone special on May Day with a homemade basket of pretty tissue paper blooms.

Kids paint a still life of a vase of flowers using colors found side by side on the color wheel, just like Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.