Early Childhood Construction & Sculpture Educational 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 a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

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

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

During Chinese New Year festivities, you see lanterns everywhere. Your child can make her very own red and gold lanterns to display at home.

These spaghetti ornaments take seconds to make and are a great addition to a tree, gift or window.

Celebrate Groundhog Day with this cute groundhog pop-up toy. All you need is construction paper, a craft stick, and a paper cup to get started.

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

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.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

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

Valentine's Day means an avalanche of cards and candy, but where to put them all? This is the perfect solution to help your kid keep track of all his goodies.

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

Help your child make a festive woven basket using paper bowls and yarn that is sure to please and fun to make.

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.

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

Sweets are for the sweet, but this pretty frame will last longer than a box of chocolates.

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

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

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

Enjoy the beach all year long with this fun activity that uses sand, seashells, and a shoebox to create a mini beach right in your house!

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

This simple and creative arts and crafts activity is great for preschoolers or kindergarteners and uses recycled magazines or newspapers.

This Valentine's Day, learn a little more about the organ that keeps everything in your body going--the heart!

This homemade snow globe is fun for kids who are excited about the arrival of winter. Kids can complete this snow globe craft quickly and easily.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.