Kindergarten and 1st Grade Construction & Sculpture Activities

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Transform a paper coffee cup into an adorable Easter bunny gift basket in this second grade arts and crafts activity.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.