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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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!)

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.

In the mood for a bit of silly science? Help your child create a truly one-of-a-kind planter out of a potato head!

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!

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.

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

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!