1st and 2nd Grade Arts & Crafts Science Activities

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

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

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!

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

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

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.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

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!

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

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.