Preschool - 1st Grade Construction & Sculpture Activities

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

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

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

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

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.

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

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.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

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.

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!

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

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!

Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

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

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

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!

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

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

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.