Easy Summer Crafts and Activities for Kids
Looking for summer crafts and activities to keep little hands busy? Here are easy summer crafts for kids: watermelons, popsicles, ice cream, strawberries and suns, plus Fourth of July fireworks, summer sensory play and free summer printables.
Popsicle Stick Summer Crafts
1Watermelon Craft Stick Project
Three jumbo sticks glued into a triangle and painted pink and green, with googly eyes.
2Triangle Watermelon Popsicle Stick Craft
Two red sticks and one green stick make a simple watermelon slice, with marker seeds.
3Popsicle Craft Stick Craft
Craft sticks grouped into a popsicle, decorated with foam sheets and googly eyes.
4Ice Cream Craft Stick Project
A craft stick triangle cone with felt scoops, a pom-pom cherry and wiggle eyes.
5Strawberry Popsicle Stick Craft
Two red jumbo sticks with a green cardstock top and painted white seeds.
6Cherry Popsicle Stick Craft
Red painted craft stick halves make the cherries, hanging from a green stick stem.
7Pineapple Popsicle Stick Craft
Yellow sticks with half-stick green leaves and brown marker crosshatching.
8Pineapple Craft Stick Project
Yellow and gold painted sticks with felt leaves, wiggle eyes and pink cheeks.
Paper Plate and Handprint Summer Crafts
9Paper Plate Sunshine Craft
A yellow painted half plate sun with paper rays, googly eyes and pink cheeks.
10Beach Ball Paper Plate Craft
Divide the plate into six sections like a pizza and paint each one a different color.
11Sun Handprint Craft
A yellow handprint face with an orange paper starburst behind it.
12Fireworks Handprint Craft
Red, white and blue paper handprints and strips burst like fireworks.
13Firework Painting Activity
A Fourth of July firework painting activity using things you have around the house.
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Summer Sensory Play
14Water Bead and Shaving Cream Sensory Bin
Soaked water beads mixed with foam shaving cream, plus scoops, tongs and tweezers.
15Lemonade Slime
Yellow clear glue slime with optional foam balls, yellow glitter and lemon essential oil.
17Patriotic Play Dough Tray
Red, white and blue add-ins: star cookie cutters, fuzzy wires, plastic links and mini craft sticks.
Summer Printables for Preschoolers
18Preschool Summer Bucket List
A free summer bucket list printable for preschoolers.
20Printable Summer Reading Glasses
Silly printable reading glasses to make summer reading fun.
21Beach Lacing Cards
Lacing cards shaped like a sandcastle, a beach ball and a shell.
22Beach Memory Matching Game
A beach memory game with the word printed under each picture.
23Beach Ball Alphabet Puzzles
Beach ball puzzles for matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
25Ocean Movement Cards
Twelve ocean animal movement cards to get kids up and moving.
