Elementary School Construction & Sculpture Science Resources

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

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

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

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.

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

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

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

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

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

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.

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

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

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

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

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

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!

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

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

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

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

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.