Recommended for Elementary Students! A Collection of Fun Craft Ideas for 4th Graders
Fourth graders begin to find joy in making things with their own hands.
As they start developing the ability to cooperate with friends and exchange opinions, it’s a time when their creativity expands.
At this stage, fourth graders are interested in colors and shapes and can more freely express themselves by using a variety of materials and tools to bring their ideas to life.
Crafting is also an important experience for thinking and learning.
Here, we introduce craft ideas recommended for fourth graders.
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Recommended for elementary school students! A collection of fun craft ideas for 4th graders (171–180)
Aroma Fragrance

If you’re looking for an easy, summery craft, I recommend making an aroma fragrance jar! Prepare a jar, gel ice packs, blue food coloring, essential oils, and decorations like marbles or seashells.
First, fill the jar about one-third full with the gel from the ice packs and add the food coloring to tint it.
Once the color is set, add more gel and a few drops of your favorite essential oil.
Finally, add the decorations and put the lid on—you’re done! Using blue food coloring with marbles or seashells makes it look like you’ve captured the sea inside the jar.
Try creating one with your favorite theme!
dollhouse

If she loves dolls, why not try making a dollhouse? In this idea, colored boards and photo frames are used to create walls and windows.
Using pins for furniture legs and buttons for handles, you can build a surprisingly charming dollhouse with just items from a 100-yen shop or things you already have at home.
These days, many miniature furnishings are sold at 100-yen shops, so you can also modify and use those.
Go ahead and create your ideal room.
Cute seasonal decorations and keychains
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Using shrink plastic, fluffy pipe cleaners, and clear stickers, you can make seasonal decorations and keychains.
Cut the shrink plastic into any shape you like, then use a single-hole punch to make holes around the edges for threading the fluffy pipe cleaners.
After threading the pipe cleaners, stick clear stickers onto the transparent area in the center.
You can add a chain to make it a keychain, or hang it with a string to turn it into a suncatcher.
Swapping out a seasonally themed keychain for each season is stylish and delightful, isn’t it?
The World of Masks

Why not make a free-form mask and transform into a different persona? It would be so much fun to express your emotions—fear, joy, and more—by turning them into a mask.
First, punch holes where the eyes go in a sheet of colored construction paper in your favorite color.
It’s also fine to have no holes at all, and to use any shapes you like.
Then freely cut out facial features, fangs, horns, and more from origami paper, and attach them with cellophane tape.
Finally, draw patterns with a felt-tip pen to finish.
It sounds really fun to express your transformed self with a mask, doesn’t it?
Handmade toy from an empty snack box

Make it with an empty snack box! Here’s how to create a pom‑pom shooting game! First, prepare an empty box that once held something like Choco Pie.
Reinforce the back by attaching a wooden stick so the lid can stay open.
Next, glue wooden sticks to the top and bottom of a wooden clip and wrap a rubber band around it.
Attach a plastic bottle cap to one end, and fix the other end to the back of the box.
Finally, stick a few small paper cups inside the box wherever you like, and you’re done.
Set a cotton ball in the bottle cap and launch it with a pop—have fun playing!


