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

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.

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.

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

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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

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!

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

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!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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.

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!

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

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

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.

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

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?