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?

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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

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.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

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

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

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

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

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.

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!

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

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.

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

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

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

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.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

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!

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

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.