5th Grade Arts & Crafts Resources

Is your child missing a friend or family member that's away at college, far from home, or in the hospital? This cute gift box says "Wish you were here!"

Unleash your child's inner Doctor Frankenstein and invite her to create a hybrid monster the world has never seen!

Embrace the spooky and creepy thrills of Halloween night with a nightlight that will do more to frighten than soothe.

Mummy chic or rag-tag retro? Catch the oldest trend in bandaged jewelry!

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

Help your kid pack her lunch in style with a recycled show box redesigned as a zombie survival kit.

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

Try this winter-themed arts and crafts activity for fifth graders: make colorful woolly pompoms! All you need is yarn and stiff cardboard to get started.

Invite your fifth grader to design a fleet of miniature paddle boats to race in the family bathtub.

Make hand-painted stemware to give away as a gift in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Craft this leprechaun hat-covered jar, brimming with St. Patrick's Day charm!

Romantic idioms are colorful and sometimes confusing phrases about love. Make a book of romantic idioms with this activity.

This Pysanky egg-decorating activity is perfect for young artists. Bring a little color and creativity to any holiday with this traditional Ukrainian craft.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

In this unique 5th grade arts and crafts project, your budding artist can imitate ancient rock art by creating his own petroglyphs on sandpaper with crayons.

This Santa puppet brings a little extra cheer to your Christmas celebration. Make a Santa puppet with your child this holiday season.

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

Sick of the same old arts and crafts projects? Try a new kind of art--string art!

An easy afternoon craft, this reusable heating compress is just the thing for warming cold limbs on chilly winter days.

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

This unique drawing activity gives kids a chance to practice their concentration and focus, and the end result is sure to bring lots of laughs!