[For 5-year-olds] Crafts to try in July! Ideas that capture the season

Sea creatures made with bubble wrap

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Sea creatures made with bubble wrap 🐙 Enjoy the texture of the material and make the most of its qualities 🎨✨ It’s also great because you can have fun with paints!#Childcare CraftingNursery teacher / Childcare workerSummer CraftChildcare#NurseryTeacherDailyLifework　#Puchipuchi　

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Let’s have fun creating an ocean scene using bubble wrap as cushioning material.

First, cut the bubble wrap into circles and stick them onto construction paper.

Be sure to leave some gaps between them.

Once you’ve painted the bubble wrap with colors, imagine them as octopuses, turtles, or fish, and use paint to add legs or heads around the bubble wrap.

Finally, stick on googly-eye stickers to finish.

It’s also cute and recommended to draw seaweed in the empty spaces or use holographic round stickers to represent bubbles in the water.

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Let’s paint the ocean with PET bottle stamps

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Perfect for Marine Day crafts! Let’s paint the ocean with plastic bottle stamps 🎶🫧 Preschool craft, childcare, ideas for childcare workers, making together with kids, easy craft, sea, stamps, construction paper, childcare worker

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Let’s have fun creating an ocean scene using a plastic bottle cap stamp that even young children can enjoy easily.

The materials are super simple! All you need is construction paper, a plastic bottle cap, paint, and a paper plate.

Squeeze your favorite paint colors onto the paper plate, dab the plastic bottle cap in the paint, and then stamp it onto the construction paper—that’s it! Using two or three colors like blue and light blue makes it look beautiful.

Finally, attach shell and fish shapes made from construction paper that you prepared in advance to complete the artwork.

It’s also lovely to add motifs you folded yourself with origami.

Give it a try for inspiration!

Sea creatures made with simple paper plates

Let’s make a cute seagull sailor using a paper plate.

It’s super easy! Fold the paper plate in half and position it with the curve facing downward.

Glue on a face, wings, a hat, and other parts made from construction paper, then draw the face and body with crayons to finish.

If you use a blue crayon to draw the sailor’s outfit details, it’ll look even more refreshing and summery.

The gentle rocking motion is adorable.

Be sure to craft and play while singing the song “Kamome no Suihei-san” together!

Turtle’s plastic bottle bucket

[PET bottle craft] Great for water play! Turtle PET-bottle bucket [handmade toy]

Here’s an idea for a turtle-themed bucket made from a plastic bottle that kids can use to fill with water or scoop and play.

First, cut off the bottle’s mouth and protect the cut edge with tape.

Design a turtle on the side of the bottle using tape, then draw the face with a permanent marker.

Punch holes on both sides of the bottle’s rim, thread through suzuran tape (polypropylene ribbon) that has a 2 cm-wide piece of straw cut and slipped over it, and attach it as a handle to finish.

Using straws in several colors makes it bright and cute.

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Aquarium building

Aquarium-making (for 5-year-olds)

As we spend more time indoors during the summer, why not take this opportunity to enjoy some focused crafting with your children? This time, we’re introducing an aquarium-making activity.

Aquariums, where you can see a variety of creatures up close, are full of charm for kids.

By creating their own aquariums, children can nurture their creativity and expressive skills.

Prepare familiar materials like paper plates and plastic bottles, and let the children cut and paste according to their own ideas and images—this helps develop fine motor skills and spatial awareness.

It’s great to carry out the activity while valuing children’s free-thinking and flashes of inspiration.

We hope you’ll give it a try!

Summer at-home fun you can get all at the 100-yen shop!

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Everything you need from the 100-yen shop! Here are some ideas for summer play at home.

Have you heard of a sensory bag? It’s a pouch-like item used as a toy to stimulate children’s senses, letting them play while engaging their perception and sensations.

This time, let’s make a DIY sensory bag and play with it! You’ll need a vacuum/compression bag, decorative pom-poms, beads, and liquid laundry starch or school glue.

You can also add glitter for extra sparkle.

The cool, chilly feel makes it perfect for summer.

Colorful ice play with pom-poms

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Have fun without using colored water! Here’s a colorful ice play idea using pom-poms.

It’s easy to try because you can get all the materials at a 100-yen shop.

This time, let’s use a round ice tray and colorful decorative balls to enjoy some cool, playful ice activities.

Just put the decorative balls and water into the round ice tray, freeze it, and you’re done! You can play by touching the ice as is, or enjoy watching it melt in the bath.

Try out different ways to play.