What You’ll Need: crayons, scissors & glue.Talk about how a seed grows into a flower.  Have your child color the worksheet, cut out the pictures and assemble them with glue.

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What You’ll Need: medium glass jar, 5-7 white paper towels, 2-4 pinto beans & water.
Stuff paper towels in a glass jar.  Slide beans down into the glass jar making sure they are visible.  Pour enough water onto paper towels so they are damp.  Observe the beans growth over the next two weeks. 

What You’ll Need: construction paper, colored pencils, scissors & glue.
Talk about the basic steps of growing a plant.  Have your child identify the correct sequence on the worksheet and then color it. Cut out pictures and glue them in the correct order on construction paper.

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What You’ll Need: Crayons, paper & scissors
Cut out the 6 steps for drawing a flower.  Have your child draw one step at a time and then color the flower.

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Similar to the Bean Project except you use corn kernels and a plastic bag instead of beans and a jar.

What You’ll Need: 3-5 leaves, paper & crayons.
Take a walk around the neighborhood with your child and collect 3-5 different kind of leaves.  Once home, place leaves vein side up on the table.  Cover with paper and color to create a rubbing of each leaf.

What You’ll Need: wax paper, popsicle sticks, brown paint, felt, scissors, card stock paper, glue & crayons.Work on wax paper.  Break popsicle sticks into different sizes and paint them brown.  Form a tree with sticks, glue together and let dry. Cut out leaf shapes with felt and glue them onto the tree branches.  Once dry, glue entire tree to paper and color a background scene.