Construction & Sculpture Life Science Activities

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.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

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!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

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

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

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

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.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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

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

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 create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

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

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

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.

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

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.

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

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

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 fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.