Elementary School Construction & Sculpture Science Resources : Page 2

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

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

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!

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

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.

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

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

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.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.