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!

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

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

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

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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

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!

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.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

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.

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.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

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.

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

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

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

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.

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!

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?