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Color Hunt

Color is everywhere from the blues and grays of the sky to the greens and yellows of the grass. For children, color is one of the first and most accessible adjectives to describe their world.  If your walks around the neighborhood need a splash of

Collecting a Journey: Telling the Story of Your Walk

Whether you’re taking a well-worn route around your neighborhood or it’s your first time on a new-to-you forest trail, you can collect items you find along the way to tell a story about your adventure. On your walk, collect items as you go and attach

Rock’n Out with Rocks

Rocks are a great example of natural loose parts. In play, loose parts are materials that can be moved, combined, redesigned, lined up, taken apart and rearranged in many different ways. Loose parts don’t have a defined purpose, rather they are what you make of

Setting up a Worm Compost Bin

Not only are worms wiggly and cute, but they are also SUPER useful to keep around the house! Worms will eat your food scraps and produce rich, beautiful compost that is amazingly healthy good for plants. Materials: Some sort of box or bin, that has

Nutrition SuperHeroes

Your plants may not be able to fly, they don’t even wear capes, but they pack a powerful punch when it comes to keeping your body healthy and strong. Let’s get to know the superheroes living in your container garden: Basil It smells good, it

Turtle Sprouts

How to grow Gaia @ Home! On Tuesday, May 26, through contactless distribution, ICG gave 45 Turtle Sprouts kits to three classes at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School so students can connect with nature at home by growing their own turtle! Your family can also

Power Seeds

Seeds are pretty amazing things.  For something so small, they sure do a lot. Each seed has an embryo, or baby plant, as well as nutrients to get it started and a seed coat to protect it. One part of the embryo will become the

How do plants “drink” water?

Have you ever been curious about how plants “drink” water? Just like humans, plants need to move liquids through them to consume nutrients. In this experiment, we’ll add food coloring to water to see the water travel up the stem of celery and color the

Community Grows: Plant Science Experiments

Did you know that plants can move? Discover more fun plant facts like this in our hands-on Plant Science/At-Home Gardening Experiment kit made in collaboration with the amazing team at the Frank Lab @ Cornell. For weeks, ICG has been collaborating with the amazing team