2nd Grade Construction & Sculpture Activities

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

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

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

This Santa puppet brings a little extra cheer to your Christmas celebration. Make a Santa puppet with your child this holiday season.

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.

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

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

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.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

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.

Santa needs all the helpers he can get, so why not create your very own holiday elf to watch over your presents.

Recycle bottles of different shapes and sizes to create a group of unique dolls that are as unique as the real people around you!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

Even the birds need to get out of the rain during the winter months. Help your child help nature and fill a lazy afternoon with this easy, cute craft.

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!

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

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.

Looking for interesting craft projects using pipe cleaners? This easy art project will encourage the sculptor in your child.

This is an easy, edible craft that your second grader is sure to enjoy!

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

Hanukkah stamps help you decorate anything from cards to gifts to wrapping paper. Make your own Hanukkah stamps out of potatoes.