Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

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

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

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.

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.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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.

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.

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

You don't need a garden to enjoy flowers. This first grade activity let's you make a lovely bouquet for Valentine's Day

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

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

Add a flourish of flowers to your dining table with simple and creative sponge art!

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

Make corn kernel necklaces this fall and help build your child's hand-eye coordination along with her fine motor skills.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Encourage your child's inner architect with a shoebox creation that he can craft into his dream house, mansion or palace.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

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.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.