Elementary School Construction & Sculpture Activities

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

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!

Let your second grader channel a famous Dr. Seuss character--the Cat in the Hat--with this hat-making activity inspired by the main character.

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.

Show your third grader how to string together a pretty, decorative harp.

This unique project will help your child learn the basics of assemblage and he'll create a perfectly festive pumpkin in the process.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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.

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

Celebrate the Presidents Day the creative way by constructing toilet paper tube figurines of a couple famous U.S. Presidents!

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

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.

Make your very own fortune cookies from paper and share good fortunes with family and friends.

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

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

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

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

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

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

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!

Capture a bit of magic with these mesmerizing ice balloons!

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

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.