1st - 3rd Grade Construction & Sculpture Activities

A Valentine's Day pop-up card is the perfect way to show your love on February 14th. Get creative with a fun 3-D paper art project.

Celebrate the Presidents Day the creative way by constructing toilet paper tube figurines of a couple famous U.S. Presidents!

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

This unique project will help your child learn the basics of assemblage and he'll create a perfectly festive pumpkin in the process.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

This yarn heart is a rustic Valentine's Day decoration that will bring some heartfelt cheer to your home. Make a yarn heart with your little Valentine.

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.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

This valentine bag craft makes a chic little pouch that holds cards and treats. Fall in love with this valentine bag craft this February.

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.

Valentine's Day is a great day to show loved ones how much you appreciate them, and this love bug craft is an adorably simple way to spread the love.

Your child will boost her gross motor skills as she has fun playing with your easy-to-make and totally safe dart board and dart balls.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Spark your child's interest in international sporting events by creating a banner of world flags.

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

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Fall in love with Cupid this Valentine's Day, specifically an adorable paper version of the classic Roman god!

Explore form, space, and texture with your child this Valentine's Day by making a charming papier-mâché heart sculpture!

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

No matter the occasion, this flag craft is the perfect way for you child to proudly display her love of the red, white and blue!

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

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

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

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.