Preschool - 3rd Grade Plants Activities

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

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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!

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.

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!

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

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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

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.

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

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

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

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.

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

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

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

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

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