Elementary School Arts & Crafts Life Science Resources

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

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 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.

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

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.

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

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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 activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

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