Search Kindergarten Science Construction & Sculpture Hands-on Activities

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!

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

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!

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

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.

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

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

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

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!