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.

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)Buy Now

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.

Loew Cornell Colossal Art Kit, 315-Count

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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 Friends 4 Ever Bracelet Making Kit

Amazon Price: $18.75 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

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.

Fold N Fly Paper Airplanes Kit

Amazon Price: $6.94 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

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.

Alex Silkscreen Factory

Amazon Price: $29.99 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

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.

Make Your Own Cards by Made By Hands

Amazon Price: $18.95 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

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)Buy Now

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.



Make Your Own Stepping Stones

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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)Buy Now

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

4M Make a Windchime Kit each

Amazon Price: $8.16 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

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.

Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics: Jewelry Box

Amazon Price: $10.35 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

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

Thread Art Kit

Amazon Price: $4.99 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

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.

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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)Buy Now

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)Buy Now

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!

Alex My Wooden Flower Press - 7" X 7"

Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

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

Creativity For Kids Fast Car Race Cars

Amazon Price: $5.00 (as of 06/03/2012)Buy Now

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!
  • bechand Jul 3, 2011 @ 9:16 am | delete
    you have so many ideas here - my daughter loves crafts - i will surely be back :O)
  • awelldressedbullet Oct 4, 2010 @ 6:03 pm | delete
    What a totally fun lens, and very pretty too!
  • 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.
  • 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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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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