2nd and 3rd Grade Arts & Crafts Activities

Use a simple toothbrush and a splatter painting technique to create this sparkling skyline work of art!

Make a beautiful nature silhouette to remember a family walk in the park or a camping trip with friends.

Capture your beach memories—not with a photograph, but with a beach mosaic made from that classic beach souvenir, the shell.

Help your child channel his inner wizard with this crafty activity perfect for imaginative youngsters.

Make these lasting felt hearts and fill them with a sweet smelling combination of rice and spices to keep the Valentine spirit alive all year long.

Transform an old chair into a chalkboard canvas! This painting activity is a useful and creative way to add some quirky charm to your existing furniture.

This activity teaches your third grader how to make a paper cut-out still life, in true Matisse-style.

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

Use these pretty egg carton flowers to decorate a spring table. They don't require water, they'll never wilt, and they're perfect for Easter.

Have your child create a little leprechaun to celebrate the season and create a little mischief.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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

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

Get kids to celebrate Earth Day by designing their very own junk truck.

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!

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

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!

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!

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

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.

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 children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.

In this art project, eight petals of a flower are painted in watercolor paint using different techniques, colors, and patterns.

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