Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

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

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!

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

Plants need water to grow. In this project we learn how plants transport water from their roots to their leaves

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

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

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

In this activity, your child will learn about how focusing on positive feelings, like love and peace, helps these feelings grow. They will also decorate pots and plant seeds as a reminder of this.

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

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

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

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.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

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

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

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

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

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

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.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Celebrate the blooming season with your kid by showing him how to make a magical spring mosaic out of all natural materials!

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!