Elementary School Construction & Sculpture Activities

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

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 shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

Hop over to the craft table and make this easy bunny puppet!

This creepy, crawly spider fiber arts project is a great way to practice combining different materials to create an interesting work of decorative art.

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

Why wait for the Easter bunny to arrive when your child can become a bunny herself? Creating a bunny mask is the perfect way to celebrate Easter.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

Get excited for St. Patrick's Day by making a Celtic knot.

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

Skip the plastic eggs this Easter: make a paper mache Easter egg sculpture in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

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.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Your little one will love making this bunny mask. From the mask's furry texture to its cute marshmallow nose, she will hardly be able to wait to wear it.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Instead of pulling out the usual Easter decorations, have your child transform cupcake liners into mini Easter baskets.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

Are you tired of the same old Easter egg dying routine? Does your kid love to try new art techniques? If so, try making Easter eggs out of embroidery floss!

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Help your child make a festive woven basket using paper bowls and yarn that is sure to please and fun to make.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Show your third grader how to string together a pretty, decorative harp.

This unique project will help your child learn the basics of assemblage and he'll create a perfectly festive pumpkin in the process.