Kindergarten and 1st Grade Construction & Sculpture Activities

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!

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.

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

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

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

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.

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

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

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

Sweets are for the sweet, but this pretty frame will last longer than a box of chocolates.

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

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

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

This simple and creative arts and crafts activity is great for preschoolers or kindergarteners and uses recycled magazines or newspapers.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

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

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

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

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

Make a batch of chocolate clay to teach kids the art of molding and sculpting. Working with their hands has never been this much fun.

Winter is a great time to build a friendly snowman! Turn regular modeling clay into a glittery snowy surprise.

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.

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.

It's Thanksgiving, so why not celebrate of the turkey? Let the little ones partake in the turkey fun, without having to do any of the carving.