Summer Fun Crafts For Kids
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Summer Crafts For Kids
Summer Fun Crafts For Kids
will provide you with some quick jump start ideas to make this a memorable summer. With lots of free time on your hands (or not) you can spark your creative engine with these tips. I have spotlighted several craft kits that are perfect for summer fun. So... gather your children, family & friends and get ready to make memories you can cherish together forever. I have found when crafting with children that one simple idea leads to the next. Use your imaginations together and enjoy the process.
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Mom... I'm Bored
Summer is a magical time for children. School is out... let the adventure begin. Keeping your children happily entertained is another matter. Eventually..."Mom... I'm bored," is heard by mother's and caretakers worldwide. The tips I have provided are simple ideas to get you started, and easy to implement with a busy schedule. But let's face it, crafting is often messy business. Consider taking your projects outside. Gather your supplies in a tote and head to the backyard or local park. Start good habits early. Make sure everyone participates in the clean-up. Children often get very excited with their finished project and are off racing to share their work with the world. Gently remind them that working together and cleaning-up is part of the process

Summer Crafts For Kids- Ideas
10 Tips To Get You Started
1) Visit the mountains, the beach or your local "Nature Walk". Take a bag or pail for collecting treasures like rocks, shells, driftwood & leaves. Check for local restrictions. Later you can use these treasures to decorate boxes, frames and wreaths. Use your imagination and come up with a creative way to display your finds.
2) Spruce up your backyard & garden. You can make rock creatures, stepping stones, small signs, and bird feeders.
3) Buy some inexpensive terra-cotta pots to decorate for summer plants and flowers. Personalize your pots with paints, or glue on trims, such as charms, buttons, or ribbons.
4) Check out yard sales for chairs, benches, small tables, & other items you can repaint for decorating your home indoors and out.
5) Prepare a traveling craft box for those long summer drives. Paper crafts, sewing, and beading help pass the time when traveling.
6) Plan a "Create A Beautiful Picture Picnic." You can pack watercolor paints & pencils or crayons for the trip. Don't forget some yummy snacks and paper.
7) Make garden markers. You can decoupage seed packet fronts to a small rectangle of wood and attach to a dowel.
8) Have a tye-dying party outdoors. After the shirts dry, each guest can take their creation home to wear all summer long.
9) Don't forget to take photos of all your summer fun. Decorate frames & then enjoy those photo's all year long.
10) Purchase a plain wooden birdhouse and decorate it with acrylic paints. Your feathered friends will feel welcome in their new home.
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Live Butterfly Garden
Witness one of nature's most spectacular transformations!
Did you know that painted ladies (the butterflies, that is) taste with their feet and have 10,000 eyes? You and your kids will be fascinated by all you learn about these beautiful creatures with the Butterfly Garden from Insect Lore. The kit comes with a relatively easy-to-assemble observation chamber; supplies for feeding the butterflies (you provide only sugar and water); an informative booklet of clear instructions and butterfly facts; and a certificate for three to five free painted lady caterpillars.
Insect Lore Live Butterfly Garden
Amazon Price: $13.00 (as of 06/03/2012)![]()
Happy Customers Say-
"We have been ordering the butterflies for 3 years now and it would be a HUGE disappointment to my kids if this wasn't under the tree. The house itself is washable and reusable so that makes the whole thing economical!"
"My kids, ages 3, 3, and 6 LOVED this toy. Easy to do and highly educational. We grew butterfly friendly flowers in the yard to encourage the butterflies to stick around. The kids even got to hold the butterflies in their hands as they sat on a leaf."
Colossal 315-pc. Art Kit
Hours Of Fun
This Colossal art kit is made for hours of fun drawing painting coloring and creating. Everything the budding artist might want. Lots of goodies to keep the kids entertained.
Alex Toys Friends 4 Ever Bracelet Making Kit
Great activity for all ages!
This handy little suitcase holds hours of fun! Great for parties, rainy days, camp, scouts, and much more. Make friendship bracelets for everyone you know! Kit includes 2 styles, 8 patterns, 22 bracelets! This package contains 22 colors of floss (solids, variegated, and multi-colored), 2 double-sided color-coded foam friendship looms, 2 best double-sided color-coded foam friend band looms, beads in various colors, beading needle, detailed instructions, and it is all packed inside of a convenient 8-1/2" x 9-3/8" x 2" neon bright suitcase with a acetate window, snap closure and a carry handle for taking your bracelet making on the go!
Alex Toys Fly'em High, Fly'em Fast Fold'n Fly Kit-Makes 18 Airplanes
Cool Designs
Make 18 paper airplanes with cool designs and stickers. Includes 18 two-sided printed papers, stickers, folding tool, and easy instruction book packed in a printed storage folder.
Alex Silkscreen Factory
Easy Way To Silkscreen
Alex Silkscreen Factory is the easy way to silk screen. Just snap in the silk, slide in the stencil and print. It works on T-shirts, bandanas and cards. This includes 14 stencil designs, silk sheets, 4 bright colors of ink and easy instructions. It comes with a bandana to get you started.
Make Your Own Cards by Made By Hands
Inspire Young Imaginations
Art kits that inspire young imaginations! Your child will love creating unique and vibrantly-colored greeting cards, holiday wishes, thank-you notes and invitations. Contains over 500 Pop-Outs!TM (fun and easy pop-out shapes), 20 cards & envelopes, and a glue stick.
Melissa & Doug Build-Your-Own Wooden Birdhouse
Fun For The Birds Too!
Here is an easy to assemble birdhouse for you and your child to assemble and decorate. Your feathered neighbors will love their home-tweet-home! Wooden panels, screws, 4 pots of paint and brush included.
Melissa & Doug Build-Your-Own Wooden Birdhouse
Amazon Price: $5.44 (as of 06/03/2012)![]()
Happy Customer Says-
"This was so nice and easy for the kids to put together and then paint them selves. They cannot wait to hang it outside and watch a bird make it a home!"
Make Your Own Stepping Stones
Make Personalized Gifts For Family & Friends
Create your own beautiful stepping stones with our Make Your Own Stepping Stones. This is great for kids to make personalized gifts (think: handprints) that make grandparents proud.
Creativity For Kids Mini Windowsill Garden
Quality Art Project For All Ages
How does your garden grow? Find out with your very own miniature windowsill garden. This adorable mini ceramic garden set includes two pots and a watering can, plus a tray to hold them. Paint the windowsill set with ceramic paint in any design or pattern you like. There's also a set of tiny garden tools to paint too. Soil and seeds are included.
Creativity For Kids Mini Windowsill Garden
Amazon Price: $14.65 (as of 06/03/2012)![]()
Happy Customer Says-
"This is a fun gift for an artsy, garden loving girl, boy or grown woman of any age! The paints cure on their own after a week. It's an adorable little set that you can also use to hold little pots of african violets or other tiny potted plants. I love it. "
Make a Wind Chime
4M Kit from Toysmith
Everyone loves wind chimes and now you can make your very own! Fun to paint and easy to assemble. This Kit provides everything you need to create one set of wind chimes that measure 18 cm in length after assembly
Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics: Jewelry Box
Decorate-by-number with this simple and easy to use craft. Have fun with Sticky Mosaics when you create a beautiful jewelry box. Adorn it with jewels and encrust it with gems because this kit comes with hundreds of sparkling stickers. Easy to use and fun for kids of all ages - simply follow a numbered pattern to decorate every angle of this pretty box. It makes the best place to keep all of your tiny crown jewels and prized possessions.
Thread Art
Make Amazing & Colorful Geometric Designs
Make amazing and colorful geometric designs with thread. Kit includes two art plate bases, five thread rolls, instructions and suggestions on further use of thread art creations
Tye Dye Kit
"Blast From The Past For Kid's Of All Ages"
This great tye dye kit comes with: 1 pair rubber gloves, 4 squirt (mixing) bottles, a bunch of rubber bands, 1/3 lb of dye fixer, and premeasured red, blue, and yellow dye. Enough to dye up to 15 adult t-shirts. Included is a video with easy to understand instructions. Wonderful group activity. Perfect for birthdays and family get togethers.
Make A Wind Chime
Nice Rainy Day Project
Be creative! Paint the mini pots with your style. Turn them into colorful and lovely home decor that everyone admires! This fun kit lets you build your own windchime. Includes two terra cotta pots, paints, brush, chime rods and lines, hanging cord and complete instructions.
4M Make a Windchime Kit each
Amazon Price: $8.16 (as of 06/03/2012)![]()
Happy Customer Says-
"I bought this for my granddaughters and they really enjoyed making it (with my help... they are 4 and 3). It's a good craft project for a rainy day..".
Funbrella Umbrella Kit
Stylish Umbrella You Paint & Decorate
Make a splash outside with this stylish kid-sized umbrella! Raindrops will keep falling on your art! Make a rainy day a fun day when you use a zany umbrella you decorated yourself. Includes umbrella and five bright weatherproof markers. Paint the panels and fill in the illustrated areas with sparkling glitter paint.Weatherproof paints will last through rain and shine!
Alex Color A Funbrella Umbrella Kit
Amazon Price: $15.40 (as of 06/03/2012)![]()
Happy Customer Says-
"My 7-year-old granddaughter loved this (and the "color it handbag" that she got for her birthday). She colors every chance she can get, and the chance to color something she can use was a real treat."
Alex My Wooden Flower Press
Decorate a flower press and then press your favorite flowers and leaves! Craft handmade cards, gift tags, bookmarks, scrapbook pages and more! Attach pretty ribbons to your gift cards to decorate presents. This award-winning kit provides fun for all seasons!
Creativity for Kids Set of 3 Fast Car Race Cars
Combine the fun of crafts with the excitement of racing. Use paint and stickers to customize a trio of wooden cars then pull back and watch them go
Scientific Explorer's Mind Blowing Science Kit for Young Scientists
Educate Young Scientists
Mind blowing experiments to delight and educate young scientists! Erupt a color changing volcano. Mix up magic ooze with a mind of its own. Play with sand that never gets wet. Mix safe chemicals and watch colors change before your eyes. You'll amaze yourself and your friends as you explore the science behind these truly remarkable reactions.
More Summer Crafts For Kids
10 More Tips To Complete The List
11) Organize your craft supplies. Purchase some plastic boxes and labels.This will save you alot of time when gathering your stuff for your next great work of art.
12) Talk about water safety as you head to the pool, ocean, lake or stream. Don't forget to pack some buckets and simple containers if your destination includes a sandy area for building sandcastles. To guard against sunburn slather on the sunscreen. Decorate an umbrella for your trip.
13) Create some easy scrapbooks with construction paper and your best-loved photos and artwork. Using a paper punch and yarn, twine or ribbon bind your sheets together in a " My Best Artwork " book.
14) Make nature bracelets with your cherished outdoor finds. Place a ring of masking tape, sticky side out, around your wrist. ( leave some room for your wrist to bend) Gently stick your treasures such as; bird feathers, clover, ferns and tiny flowers on the tape until you have filled the entire bracelet.
15) You can decorate your silverware handles for a special " Summertime Meal " with oven-bake clay such as sculpey. Use bright summer colors to make flowers, bugs or geometric designs.
16) Pick a fresh bouquet of flowers to display in one of your yard-sale finds,such as a colored bottle or a nifty vase.
17) Create a base for birdbaths and garden gazing balls, by stacking various sizes of terra-cotta flower pots and gluing with construction adhesive.
18) For a fun swim tote, purchase a canvas tote bag. Draw a simple design and embellish with fabric paints, beads, buttons and embroidery floss.
19) Make sun-glass cases for your family with bright felt rectangles stitched together on three sides with embroidery floss. For extra sparkle embellish withrhinestones.
20) Make some noodle necklaces. Paint your noodles with acrylic paint for extra pizzaz. Use clear fishing line or waxed thread for stringing.
Celebrate The Carefree Days Of Summer

Creating crafts together is a wonderful way to spend quality family time and create treasured memories. Celebrate the carefree days of summer and make the most of warm-weather days by creating a new craft together.
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robsimson
Jul 17, 2011 @ 8:14 pm | delete
- Fantastic! I think my boys would love the race car kit. Thanks!
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bechand
Jul 3, 2011 @ 9:16 am | delete
- you have so many ideas here - my daughter loves crafts - i will surely be back :O)
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awelldressedbullet
Oct 4, 2010 @ 6:03 pm | delete
- What a totally fun lens, and very pretty too!
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Sylvestermouse
Sep 22, 2010 @ 4:36 pm | delete
- Awesome suggestions and kits! I especially love the birdhouse. It is really neat to see birds either move into the birdhouse or watch them at the feeders.
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alexkazam Apr 24, 2010 @ 8:46 am | delete
- What a visually stunning lens! Great tips to keep kids busy having fun- children could also grow some seeds- sunflowers are spectatcular and grow fast! Children may also want to make puppets or magic props and do a show!
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by Ladydove62
I am a crafting Momma & enjoy doing art projects with my children. I hope this lens will give you some fun ideas to get started. Have a Great Summer!
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