1st - 5th Grade Construction & Sculpture Activities

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

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

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

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Flowers will brighten up anyone's day! Share the joy of spring by making a picture of a vase with fun 3-D flowers that will never wilt.

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

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Why wait for the Easter bunny to arrive when your child can become a bunny herself? Creating a bunny mask is the perfect way to celebrate Easter.

Get excited for St. Patrick's Day by making a Celtic knot.

Instead of pulling out the usual Easter decorations, have your child transform cupcake liners into mini Easter baskets.

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

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Get kids excited about gathering their school supplies by teaching them how to make their own writing supplies!

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

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 simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

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.

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.

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.

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

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