Fun summer activities for kids: ideas you’ll want to try in childcare and at home

Resist painting with ice paints

[Age 4] Resist painting with ice paints!

Discover all kinds of surprises! Here’s an idea for resist art using ice paints.

Resist art—also known as batik—uses the oily nature of crayons together with watercolor paints.

This time, let’s try a resist painting with ice.

You’ll need white drawing paper, ice made from paint, and white paint.

Drawing on white paper with a white crayon can be a bit tricky, but when you glide the ice paint over the paper and the white drawing appears, the children will be thrilled.

It’s sure to be a special experience.

Full-bloom Fireworks of Lace Paper

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You can use lace paper as a stencil to paint very beautiful fireworks.

First, fold the lace paper and add patterns even to the parts without holes, then cut them out.

The more patterns you add, the more places the paint will stick, making it look more luxurious.

Once you’ve finished cutting, unfold it and lay it flat on black construction paper, then paint over the top.

Peel it off gently, and beautiful fireworks will appear.

Choosing brighter colors will create a more striking contrast with the black paper.

Give it a try!

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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[Yo-yo Fishing] Let’s try fishing for handmade yo-yos

[Summer Festival Craft] Easy Yo-Yo Fishing – Simple for Toddlers and Elementary School Kids! Make and Play: Kids’ Craft

Yo-yo fishing has long been a favorite game for children at summer festivals.

Because real yo-yos are heavy and hard to catch, let’s make lightweight yo-yos out of construction paper so kids can catch them more easily.

All you need to do is connect paper strips into rings, but this might be tricky for little hands.

In that case, let them do the decorating with round stickers and the like, so they can still feel a sense of accomplishment.

Make the pipe-cleaner loop attached to the yo-yo a bit larger.

Easy-to-catch yo-yos are sure to be a hit with the kids.

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Curling Bingo Game

Make it with paper cups! Here’s an idea for a curling bingo game.

Curling is the sport where you slide heavy stones across an ice rink and try to place them as close as possible to the center of a target area called the house to score points, right? This time, let’s use paper cups as the stones and set the house as a 3×3 grid to enjoy a bingo-style game.

Split into two teams and, like tic-tac-toe, adjust your force and control your direction to line up three in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.

Make-and-play goldfish scooping

Scoop up goldfish while keeping your balance! Here are some fun, DIY goldfish scooping ideas you can make and play with.

Many of you have probably seen goldfish scooping at summer festival stalls, right? This time, let’s try a homemade goldfish scooping game.

You’ll need a milk carton, a compass, scissors, a drain/net bag, a stapler, vinyl tape, plastic bottle caps, and a container to hold water.

It’s great that you can make it using recycled materials.

Give it a try!