Arts & Crafts Engineering and Science Inquiry Resources

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.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

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 snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

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

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.