Kindergarten and 1st Grade Construction & Sculpture Educational Resources

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

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

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

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

This creepy, crawly spider fiber arts project is a great way to practice combining different materials to create an interesting work of decorative art.

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.

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

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

Why wait for the Easter bunny to arrive when your child can become a bunny herself? Creating a bunny mask is the perfect way to celebrate Easter.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Lots of kids wonder what it would be like to be a police officer. Celebrate the people who help keep our communities safe with this fun craft.

Hop over to the craft table and make this easy bunny puppet!

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

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

Your little one will love making this bunny mask. From the mask's furry texture to its cute marshmallow nose, she will hardly be able to wait to wear it.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

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

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

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Skip the plastic eggs this Easter: make a paper mache Easter egg sculpture in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

Kids make a cute pipe cleaner bumble bee craft and learn a few interesting bee facts along the way in this spring-themed arts and crafts activity.

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!