Summer Craft for Kids: 5 Amazing Crafts

Summer craft for kids has become a necessity to find, especially during the summer breaks when kids are at home. With their attention span being shorter than ever, you need some activities that are not only fun and easy to do but are also attention-grabbing, mind-spinning, and educational at the same time.

With kids being home during the summer break and temporarily out of school, they have so much extra time to do many fun activities with their parents, like going to the beach, playing games, eating ice cream, and enjoying their favorite summer activities. But what to do when they are at home, simply getting bored?

Once they are done with their homework, what will occupy their time? They itch to do something fun and exciting instead of being cooped up inside the house. They feel trapped, and then they start to throw tantrums.

Anyone, who has spent time with kids, knows that, even though easily distracted, they love looking at and doing art and craft stuff. They will gladly color every house surface with colors, pens, markers, pencils, and anything else they can get their little hands on instead of getting bored. So, why not introduce them to activities that will keep them happy while keeping your house safe?

You and your kids can enjoy some quality time, killing the summer boredom, while making fun summer crafts this summer season. Here are five amazing easy Summer crafts for kids. They don’t require many craft supplies and can easily be done by the most “un-crafty” parents.

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1. Paper Plate Watermelon Suncatchers

This is one of the easiest to make fun summer crafts for kids made with just a paper plate. Kids of all ages can make these. Preschoolers and toddlers will require a little assistance from their parents, but this super easy summer craft can be made by the older kids alone, without any help.

1.1 Requisites:

Paper plates (White)
Tissue Paper (Pink)
Tissue paper (Black)
Tape
Glue
Sticky cellophane sheet
Green paint
Paint Brush
Scissors

1.2 Steps To Create This Summer Craft For Kids:

Step 1:

Take the paper plate, and cut out the circular center part. Leave only the zig-zag edges of the paper plate and color the bottom of the zig-zag edge with green color.

summer craft — Photo by Anastasia Shuraeva/ pexels.com/ 2021

Step 2:

Cut the sticky cellophane sheet into a rectangle. Cut the black tissue paper into small circles and paste it on the sticky side of the cellophane sheet.

Step 3:

Now cut the pink tissue paper into small squares and place them on the sticky side of the cellophane sheet. Now, take another cellophane sheet, cut it into the same size as the last one and stick it on the last cellophane sheet so that they cover the tissue papers completely.

summer — Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash/2019

Step 4:

Now, take the cellophane sheet, which looks like the insides of a watermelon, and paste it on the zig-zag edges of the paper plate that you painted green. Secure it with tape.

Smooth out or cut the extra edges of the cellophane sheet to make it seem like a slice of watermelon.

Step 5:

Hang it on your window with a thread, and voila! Now you have a watermelon suncatcher made of paper plates.

2. Pool Noodle Monsters

Before jumping into the activity, let’s learn something about pool noodles. A pool, swimming, or water noodle is a flexible cylinder made of solid foam. It is used in many things like; exercise gear in water aerobics, as a toy in the pool, and as a float. Four feet long and three inches thick is the measurement of the most famous pool noodle, made of polyethylene foam. They also come with a hollow and inflatable core made of neoprene and vinyl, respectively.

One little project you can take up this summer is to make something out of pool noodles. It’s one of the most fun ideas for kids to make and enjoy on a crafty morning while playing in pools or even in a bathtub in the house, making art and goofy googly eyes at each other, throwing in their water guns, and learning something new.

We humans never forget happy memories. Create some with your children this summer. With the help of a few art supplies from red ted art or heart arts, let’s learn to create a Pool Noodle Monsters Sailboat.

2.1 Requisites

Pool Noodle
Craft foam/Craft paper
Ice cream stick/Barbeque skewers/long, thin wooden stick
Scissors
Glue gun
Paper Cutters
Some cool and cute stickers