Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Construction & Sculpture Science Resources

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 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.

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

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.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

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

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!

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

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.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

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

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

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

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

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.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.