Best Bets for Summer Crafts

Keep your kids' hands busy with these fun art projects.

With kids out for the summer, parents are often in need of activities to keep their children entertained. Try these fun art projects and let your kids get creative.

 

Firework Paintings

In honor of Fourth of July next week, get your kids to learn to paint fireworks. All you need is paint, paper, scissors and old toilet paper/paper towel cardboard rolls. Glitter and the ensuing mess is optional.

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Build a Fairy Garden

Get your child to collect things from outside – rocks, moss, branches. Then get your hands dirty and help them make a fairy garden. Feel free to add a fairy house or a popsicle stick fence.

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Squirt Gun Painting

Let your child express his inner Jackson Pollock. Buy squirt guns, liquid watercolors, and watercolor paper. Then head outside, pin paper to a tree and let your kid shoot ‘em up.

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Make Slime

Does your kid love making a mess? Make this slime and then head outside. Want to make it even more fun? Try this slime recipe made with Starbursts that your kids can even eat.

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Make a Bird Feeder

You can keep it simple and use cardboard rolls/pine cones, peanut butter and bird seed. Or get crafty – use an old milk carton and get your child to decorate a bird’s house.  

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Sidewalk Art

Sidewalk chalk is a parent’s favorite. It gets your kids outside and requires little to no clean up. Make mazes, tic-tac-toe games, and hopscotch designs. Or take your kids’ chalk art to a new level and try these fun ideas.

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Seashell Crafts

Headed to the beach? Collect shells as a family. Then, later, get your kids to paint them or try these fun ideas to transform your shells into masterpieces.

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Make Flowers Out of Pipe Cleaners

Don’t have a green thumb? You don’t have to remember to water these pipe cleaner flowers.