1st and 2nd Grade Arts & Crafts Science Resources

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

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

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

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

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