[For 2-Year-Olds] Craft Ideas to Enjoy in August! Incorporate Summery Motifs and Techniques
August is the month when two-year-olds can enjoy summer the most! How about having fun with lively two-year-olds through enjoyable craft activities? Here, we’re sharing craft ideas that bring a sense of coolness for August days that are too hot to play outside.
There are ideas using various materials and techniques, so enjoy the hot month of August together with the children! Since we treat what the children make as works (art pieces), we use the term “production” in the text.
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[For 2-Year-Olds] Craft Ideas to Enjoy in August! Incorporate Summery Motifs and Techniques (41–50)
Tropical juice in sponge art
How about using a sponge to paint a tropical juice that’s perfect for hot summer days? Prepare a long, thin melamine sponge and apply about three colors of paint to it.
Then slide the sponge across drawing paper to add color, and once it’s dry, cut it into the shape of a juice glass.
After that, combine it with construction paper cut into shapes like a glass, straw, and fruit to complete the piece! If you want a fizzy look, we recommend sticking on a few white round stickers.
Have the children do the sponge coloring and arrange the other parts themselves.
Colorful fish with decalcomania
Decalcomania is a simple technique that even one-year-olds can try, yet it’s also a delightful way to enjoy color.
Let’s use decalcomania to create fish that swim smoothly.
First, have fun with decalcomania on construction paper.
It’s great if you can involve one-year-olds from the step of placing the paint.
Once the paint dries, cut the construction paper into fish shapes and use round stickers to make the eyes and mouth.
Finally, stick the fish onto another sheet of construction paper to represent the ocean, and you’re done! Give it a try and make these adorable fish swimming in the sea.
Finger-painted ice cream
How about making ice cream art with mess-free finger painting? Put a sheet of drawing paper with paint on it into a zip-top bag, then trace over it from the outside to finger paint! Since clothes won’t get dirty, it lightens the load for parents, too.
Once you’ve created patterns with the paint and let it dry, just cut the paper into ice cream shapes and stick them onto cones.
Imagining the flavors of ice cream with all those mixed colors is half the fun.
Enjoy creating your delicious ice cream art!
A rainbow fish made with handprints
How about making colorful fish with handprint stamps that will make you feel happy just by looking at them? Paint different colors on the children’s palms to create a rainbow effect.
Then simply press their hands onto drawing paper, cut out a fish shape, and add eyes and a mouth to finish.
If you stick the fish onto a background decorated with light blue raffia (suzuran) tape, you can create an even cooler, breezier atmosphere.
The cool sensation of the paint on their palms will likely boost the kids’ excitement! If painting the hands is difficult, try making an original ink pad using a cleaning cloth (duster) and put it to use!
Foot-shaped watermelon
One of the symbols of summer is the watermelon.
It’s a classic motif, which is why it can sometimes feel lacking in freshness.
That’s where the footprint watermelon idea comes in.
It uses watermelon as the motif, but instead of simply cutting and pasting paper, you take the children’s footprints and turn them into slices of watermelon.
Trace their footprints onto triangle-shaped paper, then add seeds and a rind for a smooth process.
Another bonus is that looking back on them later lets you appreciate how much the children have grown.
[Suzu-ran Tape] Shaved Ice
Speaking of foods you want to eat in summer, shaved ice! So let’s try making a shaved ice craft.
Prepare the ice portion and the bowl ahead of time using construction paper.
Apply glue to the ice part, then roll up short pieces of raffia ribbon and stick them on.
Have white ribbon for the ice and red, blue, yellow, etc.
to represent syrups.
The step of tightly crumpling the ribbon is great finger training.
It’s also a project where children’s individuality will show through the colors and amount of syrup they choose.
Using raffia ribbon creates a very fluffy-looking shaved ice, so be sure to try this as a summer craft.
Fluffy jellyfish
This is a fluffy jellyfish craft that even small children can enjoy making! It’s appealing because it uses easy-to-find materials from 100-yen shops, like drain nets and tissue paper.
The step where you crumple the tissue paper into balls lets kids enjoy the texture of the materials.
You make it by stuffing the crumpled tissue paper into a drain net and tying it tightly with thread to finish.
If you thread string through the top of the jellyfish, you can also hang it as a decoration! Try filling it with tissue paper in various colors to create your very own original jellyfish.
