Elementary School Construction & Sculpture Activities : Page 5

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

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

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity and surprise someone special on May Day with a homemade basket of pretty tissue paper blooms.

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Help your child observe Veterans Day by having him create a paper chain American flag; it's a fun and crafty way to show your patriotism.

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.

This autumn science project magically turns green leaves into autumn leaves by using crayon shavings and heat.

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

Forget model kits! Promote creativity by having your child construct a dinosaur model using marshmallows and toothpicks.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

These paper pumpkins will make lovely, festive centerpieces in your home this fall.

Is your child a nature nut with an eye for creative, green-friendly projects? Introduce them to this amazing DIY bird feeder!

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

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

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Yarn ornaments are a beautiful and crafty way to celebrate the holidays. Make a set of yarn ornaments with your child, then hang them on your Christmas tree.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

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.

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!

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.