2nd and 3rd Grade Construction & Sculpture Educational Resources

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

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

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.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Instead of pulling out the usual Easter decorations, have your child transform cupcake liners into mini Easter baskets.

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

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

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

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Show your third grader how to string together a pretty, decorative harp.

This unique project will help your child learn the basics of assemblage and he'll create a perfectly festive pumpkin in the process.

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.

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Can your third grader catch a leprechaun using a homemade trap? Help her entice these folkloric Irish fairies with gold coins that they simply can't resist.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

Let your second grader channel a famous Dr. Seuss character--the Cat in the Hat--with this hat-making activity inspired by the main character.

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

Your child will hop with delight as he make this delicious, edible bunny out of marshmallows.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.