Preschool - 5th Grade Construction & Sculpture Activities

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Flowers will brighten up anyone's day! Share the joy of spring by making a picture of a vase with fun 3-D flowers that will never wilt.

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

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

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

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

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.

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.

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

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!

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

Get excited for St. Patrick's Day by making a Celtic knot.

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.

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