Simple and cute summer project crafts! A collection of ideas for girls that will make you want to create
How about making your own original accessories and crafts for your summer vacation project? Easy-to-find materials can turn into adorable creations, and these crafts are especially popular among girls.
Many projects are practical—like clocks, cups, and lampshades—so you can enjoy using them after they’re finished.
By arranging the colors and designs to suit your taste, you’ll end up with wonderful pieces full of personality.
In this article, we’ll introduce craft ideas that students from lower to upper grades can enjoy, so find something that interests you and give it a try!
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Simple and cute DIY science projects! A collection of ideas for girls that you’ll want to make (21–30)
Let’s make it with beads and pipe cleaners
If your child is interested in crafts, sewing, or making accessories but isn’t quite ready to use needles or a sewing machine, we recommend projects using pipe cleaners and beads.
Use larger beads that fit onto pipe cleaners and try making a bracelet.
Gather three pipe cleaners together and thread a bead onto the middle.
Cross the left and right pipe cleaners and braid the three strands.
Thread another bead onto the middle, braid again, and repeat.
Shape it into a circle to fit the wrist, and finish by securing the ends so no wire sticks out.
Your bracelet is complete!
rock candy
Kids—especially girls—love sparkly things, don’t they? As its name suggests, this rock candy is candy, but it sparkles like gemstones, and the process of making it feels more like an experiment than cooking, so it’s perfect for a summer vacation science project.
The materials—granulated sugar, water, disposable chopsticks, bamboo skewers, food coloring, plastic cups, and so on—are easy to gather.
It takes about a week of leaving it undisturbed, but you can document the crystallization during that time as part of the experiment.
Since you’ll use heat to dissolve the sugar, younger children will need adult assistance.
Simple and cute summer project crafts! A collection of ideas for girls that will make you want to create (31–40)
snow globe
Snow globes you get as souvenirs—some people even collect only snow globes, right? Let’s try making one yourself! Prepare a round jar, a piece of sponge, your favorite figurine, glitter, water, and clear glue.
Cut the sponge to fit the lid of the jar, attach the figurine on top, and stick it to the underside of the lid.
In the jar, add water, glitter, and glue, then mix to dissolve and screw on the lid—done! It’s easy enough for lower elementary school kids.
You can also create little scenes by adding your favorite figurines.
lava lamp
Lava lamps are well-known as stylish interior items.
Watching their gently swaying, dreamy motion is so soothing, isn’t it? Let’s try making a homemade lava lamp! Fill a base container halfway with water, then pour in the same amount of salad (vegetable) oil on top.
Since oil is lighter than water, it floats, creating a separated layer.
Next, use a syringe or similar tool to carefully add small amounts of water colored with food dye.
You’ll see colored, rounded droplets softly appear and rise.
You can also try adding a fizzy tablet, some glitter from a 100-yen shop, or illuminating it from below with a light for an extra charming effect.
Portable water
Can you carry water? Let’s make mysterious water.
Prepare water and a bowl, food-grade calcium lactate and food-grade alginate, and a ladle.
Make two solutions: one with alginate dissolved in water and one with calcium lactate dissolved in water.
Scoop up the alginate solution with the ladle, place it into the calcium lactate solution, and rotate the ladle for a few minutes.
Then gently drop what you’ve made into plain water… and you’ll have water you can hold in your hand! Try making this mysterious water and summarize your experimental results.
herbarium
Let’s try making a herbarium, which is also popular as room decor! Prepare a bottle, dried flowers, and herbarium oil.
After cutting the dried flowers, place them in the bottle, pour in the oil, and screw on the lid—that’s it.
It’s very easy, so it’s perfect when you want to finish a craft assignment quickly.
If you’d like to create something with a summery feel, how about adding shells designed for herbariums? You can also tint the oil blue to represent the ocean.
Let’s make a 3D kaleidoscope
How about making a box—a cube-shaped kaleidoscope—where a glittering world unfolds when you peek inside? You’ll need six acrylic mirrors to form a cube and vinyl tape to assemble them.
The process is very simple: scratch the outer surfaces so the inner mirrors can admit light, then add color to the scratched areas with pens.
The view you see when you look inside doesn’t change, but a mysteriously captivating world spreads out, one you’ll want to keep gazing at forever.
