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 projects for school research! A collection of ideas for girls you’ll want to make (41–50)
pressed flower(s)
I have memories of making pressed flowers when I was a child.
Back then, we would pick flowers or use our favorites, sandwich them between sheets of paper, weigh them down for a few days, and let the moisture evaporate.
But it turns out you can make them in just one minute using a microwave! Place kitchen paper on a piece of cardboard, arrange the flowers so they don’t overlap, then layer kitchen paper and another piece of cardboard on top.
Secure it tightly with rubber bands and microwave for one minute—done, so fast! Try decorating them cutely with colored paper or masking tape.
It’s simple, so even lower grade elementary school kids can easily take on this as a free research project.
Let’s try making ice cream that doesn’t melt
Ice cream you could eat every day on a hot day.
This experiment might change the idea that ice cream always melts quickly.
Let’s start by making ice cream! The ingredients are mostly the same, but for one batch we add agar or kanten powder.
When you place the agar-added ice cream next to the regular one… amazingly, the one with agar doesn’t melt.
Regular ice cream starts to melt when the temperature is above 20°C, but the agar-added version won’t melt unless it’s heated to over 70°C.
Jiggly Soap
Jiggly, cute-looking soap is a great recommendation for girls’ science projects! It’s also appealing because you can easily make it with items you likely have at home, like hand soap that you use every day, silicone molds, and gelatin.
Dissolve the gelatin in hot water and slowly mix it with the hand soap.
Next, to get a nice color, pour the mixture into a cup with food coloring, then pour it into a silicone mold.
Chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours to set, and you’re done! Since it uses gelatin, you’ll end up with a jiggly, jelly-like soap.
Give it a try!
Mini Push
Here’s a craft idea using a beading product called “Mini Push.” You insert pins threaded with beads into a pre-printed illustration.
It takes patience, but once finished, the flat illustration becomes three-dimensional, sparkly, and very cute.
Putting it in a frame makes it look even more polished and it’s perfect as interior decor! There are many designs available, so try finding one you like.
The price is around 1,000 yen.
Vase making
Let’s try making a vase using scrap materials or your favorite little items—something even lower-grade elementary students can do easily.
You’ll need an empty bottle or container as the base of the vase, air-dry clay, items you’d like to stick on for decoration, and paint.
Air-dry clay is easy to find at 100-yen shops and similar stores.
Firmly press the clay around the outside of the bottle, then embed your favorite items into the clay as decorations.
Seashells, glass marbles, or pretty stones work well.
After that, let the clay dry thoroughly for 1–2 days, then paint it to finish!
Plastic bottle wind chime
Let’s try making a wind chime by reusing a plastic bottle.
Cut off the top part of the plastic bottle with a utility knife, and protect the cut edge with cellophane tape since it can be sharp.
Make a hole in the center of the cap, thread a string through it, and attach a paper strip and a small bell to the end.
Decorate the bottle part with stickers and the paper strip with drawings.
As long as an adult helps with cutting the bottle and making the hole, this is a free research project that first-grade elementary school students can do.
Handmade camera
Let’s make a cute toy camera.
You’ll need a small empty box, origami paper, a toilet paper roll, colored cellophane, and vinyl tape.
Cover the empty box with your favorite color of origami paper and make a hole in the center large enough for the toilet paper roll to pass through.
Cut the toilet paper roll to a suitable length, attach colored cellophane to one end, and set it into the box—you’re done.
It’s easy, so it’s a good free-study project for lower elementary school students.