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!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

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

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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

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

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

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

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

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

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.

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

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!