Elementary School Arts & Crafts Activities : Page 2

Your child will have fun creating an Earth Day Plate that he can eat off as often as he likes!

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

This Rudolph craft will help your kid make a goofy and memorable ornament. Make a Rudolph craft this winter to bring some added merriment to your Christmas.

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

Creating a cloud of bats is a great way for your child to get familiar with the process of folding and cutting. They also make great Halloween decorations!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

Show your fourth grader how to embrace a green lifestyle and enjoy the outdoors with a homemade, recycled picnic basket.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

This butterfly costume comes together in under an hour and is perfect for your little trick-or-treater. Make this butterfly costume for Halloween or play time.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Your child will come to better understand symmetry as he create this dramatic black bat mask. It's sure to lend a dark touch to any Halloween costume.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

This dalmatian costume is simple for expert crafters and novice dog lovers alike. Make a dalmatian costume with your child for Halloween or play time.

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

Have your child create a little leprechaun to celebrate the season and create a little mischief.