5th and 6th Grade Arts & Crafts Activities

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

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.

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

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces students to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

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

Create your own version of an Aboriginal Australian dot painting in this fun activity!

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.

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

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

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

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

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

Creating a cloud of bats is a great way for your child to get familiar with the process of folding and cutting. They also make great Halloween decorations!

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

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

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

Make this African collar necklace for a lesson in crafting and African culture.

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

Help your kid pack her lunch in style with a recycled show box redesigned as a zombie survival kit.

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.

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

Looking for a way to channel your spring fever? Create a beautiful spring centerpiece with your child!

Make an elegant Mother's Day card to celebrate the love and work in raising kids.

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

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.