2nd and 3rd Grade Construction & Sculpture Activities

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.

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

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

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

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.

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

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

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.

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.

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

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

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.

Show your third grader how to string together a pretty, decorative harp.

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

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.

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

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.

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

A twist on the gingerbread house, this train is made with graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations. A great 2nd-3rd grade holiday arts and crafts activity.

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

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.

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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.

With a few creases and crimps, you can turn regular old aluminum foil into tin foil art!

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.

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

Make ancient Egypt come alive by showing kids how to make their own mini sarcophagus out of a shoe box.

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.