Kindergarten and 1st Grade Construction & Sculpture Activities

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

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.

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

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 natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

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

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.

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

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

How do you turn an everyday object into a scary skeleton? This project is the perfect way to practice counting while using cotton swabs to create a skeleton.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

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

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!

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

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

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Make a gingerbread house with your kid with this tutorial. Learn how to make a gingerbread house using a milk carton, graham crackers, and frosting.

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.

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

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

Honor dad's fatherly achievements with a handmade plaque for a job well done!

Have a little fun playing with food this Thanksgiving, and a silly harvest holiday potato with your child!

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Help your child craft a magnetic menorah that they can safely "light" themselves!

Make a flame-free menorah from beans, pasta, and tissue paper with this simple Hannukah craft activity! 

Help your child make a festive woven basket using paper bowls and yarn that is sure to please and fun to make.