Fifth Grade Arts and Crafts Activities

Fifth Grade Arts and Crafts activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy fifth grade arts and crafts activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Browse the activities below or use the selector to find similar activities.

Santa Lucia Crown

Santa Lucia Crown

Show your child how to create a modern version of the Swedish Santa Lucia crown, and she can earn the honor of wearing it on Christmas morning!

Start a New Mistletoe Tradition

Start a New Mistletoe Tradition

Here's a great craft to get everyone in the holiday spirit. Every time someone walks under your homemade mistletoe, he'll express appreciation to someone.

Create a Surrealistic Collage

Create a Surrealistic Collage

Kids learn about surrealism as they cut out items from magazines and combine them to create their own piece of surrealistic juxtaposition.

Recycled Plastic Wallet

Recycled Plastic Wallet

Plastic bags can be reconfigured into environmentally-friendly wallets. Simply fuse them together with an iron, then have your child paint her creation!

Make an Extracurricular Mobile

Make an Extracurricular Mobile

Creating an extracurricular mobile is a wonderful way to promote your child's independence! This enjoyable activity will enlist your child's creativity to help her keep track of her own daily schedule and extracurricular activities.

Make a Santa's Helper Paper Poinsettia

Make a Santa's Helper Paper Poinsettia

Your child can be Santa's Helper this year by making a Christmas card and a paper poinsettia for someone in her life who may get overlooked this year.

Oatmeal Face Mask

Oatmeal Face Mask

This tried-and-true complexion treatment is a slumber-party staple that many people swear by. It also makes a great kid-made gift.

Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging

Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging

Try your hand at an ancient Japanese tradition. Learn about Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging. You'll end up with an artfully arranged set of spring flowers, and learn about another culture in the process.

Make Mosaic Names

Make Mosaic Names

Kids can decorate their sketchbooks, book reports or notebooks with their name or initials created in paper mosaic patterns.

Design Your Own Anasazi Pottery

Design Your Own Anasazi Pottery

For young budding anthropologists, this is the perfect creative project. In this activity, your child will study images of Anasazi pottery, then use what she's learned to create her own patterned pottery in the Anasazi style.

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