Construction & Sculpture

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

Teach the kids how a bird's nest is made by making your own nests using only natural materials!

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your preschool child busy, while helping her recognize letters in a creative way.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its giant tentacles!

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

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to complement what he's learning about this instrument in school.

Make a kaleidoscope at home to teach your child about the color spectrum and mirror science.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

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.

Help your child make a festive woven basket using paper bowls and yarn that is sure to please and fun to make.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

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

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

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

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

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

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Craft a sparkling magic wand and let your child pretend she's a fairy, wizard, or magician!

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.