Summer Crafts For Kids: 6 Ideas To Get You Started

Looking for ways to keep your kids occupied while they're away from school? Here are 6 ideas on summer crafts for kids to get you going.

Garden Craft Ideas

Summer usually means nice weather and more time to spend outside, so theming your summer crafts for kids around the garden is definitely a good idea. Here are a few ideas for you:

Garden signs:
Get your kids to help you create decorative signs for the garden (naming specific areas, or plants, for example) by providing them with some old wood and paints.

Painting plant pots:
Get the kids interested in growing their own plants by giving them a plant pot each to decorate. After they've finished, they can use it for their own gardening projects!

Bird feeder:
It isn't too difficult for your kids to create a bird feeder using a pine cone. First, wrap it in string so you can eventually hang it. Then smother it in peanut butter, and run it through a plate of bird seeds. The birds will love this simple feeder!

Sun Catcher

There are so many ways to go about this craft idea. A sun catcher is designed using glass or other reflective material so that it catches and disperses the sunlight either indoors or out.

For younger kids, the simplest idea for a sun catcher is to pierce colored paper, or use tissue paper, so that the light shines through in different patterns.

Other ideas include using old CD disks, using glass found on the beach, or creating a stained glass window effect by painting transparent sheets of plastic.

Paper Plate Suns

Summer crafts for kids are more fun if they embrace the current season, which the paper plate sun definitely does! This is a really easy yet fun, decorative craft for kids of all ages.

You'll simply need some paper plates along with some yellow and orange craft paper to decorate it with the sun's rays.

Summer Leaf Prints

This craft is perfect for keeping kids occupied outdoors to find the materials they'll need for the craft. Get them to go out and find as many different kinds of leaves as they can. Once they have a leaf they want to use, they should place it veined side up on a sheet of paper.

The leaf should then be covered with paint. Your kids can now use this paint covered leaf to make beautiful prints on paper, pressing it down to make sure the paint transfers to the paper before carefully peeling away the leaf.

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