Summer Crafts for Kids
When boredom looms and the weather's hot, get everyone involved in summer crafts for kids.
Kids are always excited to be free from the school routine when they are let out for summer break, but it isn't long until they start wondering what to do.
Summer crafts for kids will keep them occupied and maybe even teach them a thing or two.
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What You Can Find In Here?
- Let's do a Collage!
- Arts And Crafts For Kids on DVD
- Summer Flower Arrangements
- Homemade Bouquet Vase
- Arts And Crafts For Kids (UK Only)
- Jar vases
- Crafts for Kids (UK Only)
- Crafts for Kids- Books
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How to Recycle Materials For Your Child's Craft Box
Many items are suitable for recycle crafts, these items can be reused and recycled to make new toys, games and learning activities. You can make a craft box of Recycled Materials For Your child with these items and use them as needed.
Let's do a Collage!
In summer, crafts for kids can involve found objects, like seed pods, grasses, and similar objects.
Let kids create nature collection collages by gluing these items to a stiff piece of cardboard.
Help them spray paint some of the findings with silver or gold paint.
Alternatively, they might like to glue glitter to some of the findings.
Arts And Crafts For Kids on DVD
Rainy Day Art: Hands-On Craft Projects for Children 5 and Up
Embark on an Art Adventure! Spend a day with Cherie Lynn as she shows you and your kids how to have fun creating art.
Follow along her step-by-step instruction to create your own journals and diaries, picture frames, murals, puppets, musical instruments, masks and more. Even create a funky creature using your very own name!
Have fun with your kids with Rainy Day Art! Hours of engaging arts and crafts projects for children 5 and up.
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 11/25/2009) 
Crafty Fun (Fun and Easy Crafts for Kids) Arts & Crafts DVD - 2007
Have fun with Amanda and Maria as they show you step-by-step how to create 12 unique craft projects! From necklaces to iron-on tote bags. Amanda and Maria will guide you through each project with easy to follow directions and simple tips. So round up your friends and get ready to have some crafty fun! Learn how to make great Christmas ornaments, picture frames, earrings, unique wall hangings and much more.
Amazon Price: $10.95 (as of 11/25/2009)
World Art: Multicultural Art Projects from around the Globe
Cherie Lynn is your personal art tour guide for a fun-filled and educational trip around the globe!
Learn about other cultures by creating art inspired by people from all over the world. Includes 12 projects using fun materials like raffia, clay, paint markers, and scratch board.
Learn how other people lived by creating art inspired by the peoples of Egypt, Australia, India, Native America, Mexico, Japan, Ancient Greece, and more.
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 11/25/2009)
Elmo's World - Singing, Drawing & More
Join Sesame Street's curious red monster, as he explores singing, drawing and telephones! Elmo's World offers kids and adults a fresh and light-hearted take on the world around them. Each episode comes to life in Elmo's bright, exciting and very original ro om -- the drawer, door, shade and TV all join in the fun. And he's even visited by a Muppet opera diva and a talking Muppet phone! Also featuring Elmo's per goldfish, Dorothy, the zany Mr. Noodle and classic songs that will delight viewers of all ages.
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 11/25/2009)
Summer Flower Arrangements
Perhaps they would also enjoy collecting wild flower seed heads and creating dried flower arrangements. Arrange the bouquet in a homemade vase.
A vase for summer bouquets, fresh or dried, is another craft that naturally fits into the summer crafts for kids category. A simple vase can be made from a tin can. Soup cans work particularly well because they are smooth on the outside and rather narrow. Be sure to file off any sharp spurs on the inside opening.
Homemade Bouquet Vase
1. Start the work of art by cutting a piece of construction paper or other colored paper to fit around the sides of the can. This will be glued to the outside of the can, but first it needs to be decorated.
2. The vase cover can be decorated in many ways. The child can draw a summer scene on the paper and then decorate it with glued on glitter or small stickers of summer things.
3. Another idea is for the child to write their name in large letters, and glue beans, seeds, or glitter to the letters. Let all glue dry before attaching the paper to the outside of the can.
4. Add water and fresh flowers or leave dry for dry flowers.
Arts And Crafts For Kids (UK Only)
Fire Fly Jar
"...I decided to make firefly jars as a project at "Grandma Camp" and Kids were able to do it themselves with very little help from me. I hope you enjoy the video as much as we enjoyed making it..."
Jar vases
Jar vases make good summer crafts for kids, too. Canning jars make particularly cute vases, but any cast off mayonnaise, pickle, or other jar, even plastic ones, can work, too.
To make a jar into a vase it first needs to be sparkling clean.
Kids love getting wet in the summer, so let them roll up their sleeves (or put on a bathing suit!) and have fun splashing at the sink while "washing dishes."
When the jar is clean and dry, tie an attractive ribbon around the opening.
If desired, decorate the outside of the jar with glued on beads and buttons.
Crafts for Kids (UK Only)
How To Make Friendship Bracelets
This is the easiest friendship bracelet.You should start with this first.
Crafts for Kids- Books
Creative Crafts for Kids: Over 100 Fun Projects for Two to Ten Year Olds
Gill Dickinson and Cheryl Owen-both authors of many popular crafts books-have teamed up to create a volume jam-packed with more than 100 stimulating projects (plus variations) for 2- to 10-year-olds. Designed to maximize children's imaginations, these activities provide plenty of space for kids to stretch their own creative muscles. Little hands will happily keep busy creating and crafting with everything from enjoyably messy clays and paints to fabrics, beads, and other materials. A jazzy t-shirt, fancy cake, or hand-painted wrapping paper: it's here, with easy-to-follow instructions and templates to help kids along.
Amazon Price: $18.96 (as of 11/25/2009)
Hands on Crafts for Kids: 20-Minute Crafts
In 20-Minute Crafts, part of Kathie Stull's Hand-On Crafts for Kids series, parents learn they can provide a few general supplies like foam sheeting, wooden cutout shapes, craft sticks, paints, Styrofoam balls, and chenille stems, then let youngsters go to town constructing an assortment of useful and just-for-fun projects. Masks, frames, fans, pencil toppers, decorative magnets, holiday and party decorations, and many other kid-friendly ideas abound. The volume could have used better organization: the table of contents is bewildering, and there is no immediately discernible sequence of projects. The overtly commercial angle is a bit off-putting too: each project is "sponsored" by a major craft manufacturer, though the materials lists do call only for generic supplies. Also, the book claims to be geared to 7- to 12-year-olds, but most kids at the upper part of this age range will consider themselves too sophisticated for most of these projects. Younger ones, however, will probably enjoy them, and even a well-coordinated 5-year-old can handle many of them with adult supervision.
Amazon Price: $9.32 (as of 11/25/2009)
Geology Crafts For Kids: 50 Nifty Projects to Explore the Marvels of Planet Earth
Dig into the marvels of planet Earth with 50 nifty activities for kids about the spectrum of geologic phenomena including plate tectonics, continental drift, minerals, volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, crystals, fossils, and more. "As much a craft book as it is a geology text....Enough general science material included...others have applications elsewhere in the curriculum....Safety warnings are included.
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Science Crafts for Kids: 50 Fantastic Things to Invent & Create
The authors of the popular Nature Crafts for Kids present a new book with 50 hands-on science projects for kids. All in full-color, the book brilliantly shows an entire year's worth of things to bring out the artist and the scientist in the 8-to-12 set. Accompanying many projects are easy-to-understand sidebars that explain the scientific principles and facts the projects are demonstrating.
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Other Use For Homemade Vase
Summer crafts for kids
You can also use the can for a trinket container or a place to put pens, pencils, and markers. To make them real summer crafts for kids, glue grass seed heads and found seed pods to the paper in a decorative way.
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- pepys pepys Sep 25, 2009 @ 2:02 pm
- Wow, you do have a lot of crafts here. What I love is that craft making means developing creativity and also when sharing you get the best of all worlds - busy kids, learning experience, sharing, family time. Good on you
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- GrowWear GrowWear Aug 26, 2009 @ 2:42 am
- Children are so happy when doing crafts, and there are some great ideas for lots of fun things to make here!
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- Tipi Tipi Aug 22, 2009 @ 9:12 am
- Love the lens. I think I'm going to try to make friendship bracelets with my granddaughter, she would love it!!!
Susie
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- AppalachianCountry AppalachianCountry Jul 3, 2009 @ 6:10 am
- Wonderful lens. Thank-you so much for all the great ideas. 5 stars*****
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- Hi there! I am featuring this lens on my Faery Bubbles lens!
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