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Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

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.

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!

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.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

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.

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

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

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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.

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

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

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

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.

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

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!

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

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

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

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?