Recommended for elementary school students! A fun collection of craft ideas for first graders

Let’s make chalk

For my fourth-grade elementary school summer vacation independent research project, I tried making chalk!

Chalk, often paired with the blackboard at school.

Did you know that this familiar item used in class almost every day can actually be handmade? The materials are eggshells, flour, water, and food coloring for tinting.

First, finely crush the eggshells.

Put them in a mortar, start by breaking them up roughly, then grind them into a powder.

Once they’re fine, add flour and water and mix thoroughly until it comes together.

When it holds together, divide it into portions, add color, and let it harden.

Wrapping it in paper to shape it into a thin stick is also recommended!

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utatane

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Art made with fruit

Cutting cucumbers like this turns them into works of art.

Here’s a great independent research project for elementary school students who love cooking and baking: creating art using fruits and vegetables! By getting creative with how you cut various fruits and veggies, you can make beautiful shapes or even carve them into animals.

One especially recommended idea is to cut an orange peel into the shape of a bear, place the fruit segments inside, and make it look like the bear is holding the fruit.

Projects like this can look like they were made by a pastry chef or top-class cook, yet they’re surprisingly easy to do! Because you’ll need to use a kitchen knife or fruit knife, be sure to do this together with a parent or guardian.

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Yoimachi Jēn

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Plastic Bottle Cap Calendar

Easy! DIY Blackboard Calendar Made with Bottle Caps! [CAINZ DIY STYLE]

In the past, as the year-end approached, we used to receive calendars from the local shopping streets and neighborhood stores, and our home would be overflowing with more calendars than we needed.

These days, it’s become common to buy calendars that suit our purposes.

For a science project, you can make a perpetual calendar using plastic bottle caps—depending on your ideas, it could turn into a wonderful calendar.

The materials are a corkboard, pushpins, and plastic bottle caps.

The basic setup is to fix the days of the week—Sun, Mon, Tue, and so on—onto the corkboard, then line up bottle caps labeled with the dates.

Imagine hanging them on pushpins with large heads.

You can decorate the bottle caps with beads or even make them light up with miniature bulbs—the ideas are limitless.

Make it into a lovely calendar!

Let’s make a keychain with masking tape

[DIY] You can turn masking tape—all from the 100-yen shop—into a keychain! I'll show you how to make it!

Let’s try making keychains using easily available masking tape that comes in many patterns.

You’ll need masking tape, a hole punch, scissors, a utility knife, a cutting mat, double-sided tape, wide clear tape, black construction paper, a strap, and a ruler.

You can get all of these materials at 100-yen shops and similar stores.

The method is very simple: just layer the masking tape, construction paper, and clear tape together using double-sided tape.

Details on cutting and tips are explained in the video, so please refer to it.

It’s an inexpensive and easy science project for making cute keychains!

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Yoimachi Jēn

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Let’s remake it!

Vintage with Paint! Remake Stool DIY [CAINZ DIY STYLE]

This is a craft project where a very colorful, ordinary-looking chair is unexpectedly remade with a vintage vibe.

It’s a serious guide that introduces various paints, tools, and techniques, but what’s great is that you can buy the materials at a home improvement store and refresh items you’ve grown tired of.

It might also be fun to enjoy a bold, free-spirited remake together with your children.

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Murakami Shinpei

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Resin crafts with your favorite character

[Independent Research] Tried Making Resin Gummies Using Star☆Twinkle Precure Gummy Cases♪ Summer Vacation Homework with Mom – Resin Craft, Handicraft, Sweets, 100-Yen Shop DIY, Star☆Twinkle Precure Collaboration

These days, customizing smartphone cases with resin and making original accessories are really popular.

Doing a science project using resin is highly recommended, too.

For example, you could harden resin in the shape of your favorite character and use it to make an original piggy bank.

You can buy resin at 100-yen shops or craft stores, so be sure to check it out.

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Saitō Ayumu

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Ocean diorama

[Elementary School Grade 2 Summer Craft] All 100-Yen Shop Materials! Palm-Sized ♪ How to Make an Ocean Diorama

A diorama that can capture your summer beach memories.

You can easily make it with items from the dollar store, and it doesn’t take up much space, which is great.

First, mix ocher-colored paint into paper clay and attach it at a slight angle to the bottom of a jar with glue.

Add more glue on top, sprinkle sand, then mix blue pastel shavings (made with a tea strainer) with clear resin.

Create waves using clear resin and white paint, and brush them on to complete the sea.

After that, customize it to match your own memories with items like watermelon, swim rings, shells, and fish.

Since making people is hard, representing yourselves as animals—like rabbits or bears—results in a unique and cute piece!

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