4th and 5th Grade Arts & Crafts Science Resources

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

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.

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

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

Try hammering some plants with your kids to teach them a valuable lesson in flower science while making beautiful artwork in the process!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Let your fabulous crafter use their favorite flowers, fruits and herbs to whip up a delicious perfume that they can proudly present to a friend or a loved one.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

Is your child a nature nut with an eye for creative, green-friendly projects? Introduce them to this amazing DIY bird feeder!

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.