Search 2nd Grade Science Arts & Crafts Hands-on Activities

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

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

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

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

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your second grader creating pretty flower prints.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!