Elementary School Arts & Crafts Science Activities

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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

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.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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.

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.

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

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

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

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

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

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

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.