Elementary School Construction & Sculpture Activities

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

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

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

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

This Rudolph craft will help your kid make a goofy and memorable ornament. Make a Rudolph craft this winter to bring some added merriment to your Christmas.

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Creating a cloud of bats is a great way for your child to get familiar with the process of folding and cutting. They also make great Halloween decorations!

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

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

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

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.

Your child will come to better understand symmetry as he create this dramatic black bat mask. It's sure to lend a dark touch to any Halloween costume.

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Looking for way to help Japan? Start by making paper cranes! Learn how you and your child can show your support for Japan through the art of origami.

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

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

Keep your child active this summer by transforming old milk jugs into scoops and newspaper into a ball with this exciting game of catch!

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!

Kids generally can't come up with the cash to buy the bling they dream of giving mom. With this project, they can make her jewelry themselves!

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

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

This beaded wind chime is fun to make and it gets kids experimenting with patterns, a key kindergarten math skill.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

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

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.

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

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

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!

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!