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[Childcare] Fun craft ideas and craft activities perfect for summer

Summer is full of fun events at daycares and kindergartens! With water play, festivals, and fireworks events, children really get a feel for the season.

Here, we’ll introduce craft ideas recommended for summer.

You can make all sorts of things like colorful fireworks, delicious-looking shaved ice, beautiful morning glories, and cute beach sandals.

These activities let you enjoy the summer atmosphere through crafting, so please use them as a reference! Some projects use unique techniques, so be sure to make fun summer memories together with the children.

Since the works created by children are regarded as artworks, the term “seisaku” (制作) is used in the text.

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Perfect for summer festivals! Yo-yo

[Preschool Craft] Perfect for summer festival crafts! Easy origami yo-yo tutorial♪
Perfect for summer festivals! Yo-yo

Let’s make a festival-style water yo-yo using a single sheet of origami paper.

Fold the paper in half into a square twice, then unfold it and fold each corner inward toward the center.

After folding one section outward, tuck each corner inside to form the shape.

Finally, make a small cut with scissors to create the yo-yo’s mouth/opening, and you’re done.

Add patterns, round stickers, or drawings to create your own original yo-yo! Make colorful yo-yos and liven up the festival.

Sponge stamp ice cream

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Let’s make ice cream using sponge stamps! First, take a sheet of drawing paper and dab the paint-covered stamp to create patterns.

You can use any colors you like.

Once the paint is dry, cut the paper into the shape of ice cream.

Cut brown construction paper into a cone shape, draw the cone pattern, and paste it onto a backing sheet.

Then stick the stamped ice cream on top of the cone, add patterns in the empty spaces with crayons, and you’re done! You can make several scoops and stack them to create two- or three-scoop ice cream, too.

Fluffy ice cream

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Fluffy ice cream

Recommended when you want to make a three-dimensional piece! Here’s a fluffy ice cream idea.

Mix shaving foam with glue and a coloring agent to make foam.

Use a bit less glue than shaving foam to keep it fluffy.

Cut construction paper into a cone shape, draw a pattern, and attach it to the base.

Pile the foam on top of the cone to represent the ice cream, then add stickers or drawings in the blank spaces on the backing paper to finish.

Sprinkling powdered pastel on the foam as a topping might make it look pretty.

Ice Cream Kendama

[Craft] Let's make and play — Ice Cream Kendama
Ice Cream Kendama

Delicious ice cream turned into a kendama! Here’s a craft idea where, if you succeed at the kendama, it becomes an ice cream.

Draw a cone pattern on brown construction paper and mark the middle of either long side.

Align the end of a piece of kite string with the mark and tape it down, then roll the paper into a cone shape and secure it with tape.

It’s safer to tape down the stringed area as well.

Attach the other end of the kite string to the center of a sheet of newspaper with tape, and crumple the newspaper into a ball.

Cover it with your favorite color of origami paper from the top and secure it to make the ice cream part.

Draw patterns on the ice cream, and you’re done!

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Playing ice-cream shop

[For 3-year-olds] Ice Cream Shop
Playing ice-cream shop

Many children probably want to eat lots of ice cream in the summer! So why not make your own ice cream and play shop? Let the kids freely create their own ice creams—cup ice cream, cone ice cream, ice pops, and more.

Draw designs on paper cups to make the cups, and make the ice cream part by crumpling tissue paper and sticking small stickers on it.

For the cones, draw patterns on construction paper, roll it into a cone shape, and secure it.

Collage Ice Cream

[Craft for Toddlers] Collage Ice Cream 🍦🤍 [Wall Display]
Collage Ice Cream

Here are some ice cream craft ideas that also let you enjoy making collages.

Cut the cup or cone bases out of cardboard, then decorate them by drawing patterns with pens or using colored paper.

For the ice cream scoops, basically cut circles out of construction paper, and have fun adding various toppings with small pieces of colored paper or stickers.

It’s also cute to make “collage ice cream” by gluing torn newspaper or flyers onto the round paper scoops.

Once your ice cream is done, attach it to the base to finish.

sponge toy

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sponge toy

Introducing jellyfish and fish toys made from sponges that are perfect for water play.

Sponge toys are a big hit with kids because they can soak up water and be squeezed for fun! Give it a try.

Prepare two mesh sponges.

Cut the net of one sponge and remove the sponge inside.

Cut the sponge into a jellyfish shape and make a hole in the center.

Thread a string through the top of the net to make a loop, pass the loop through the hole in the sponge, then cut the net to create the tentacles.

For the other sponge, cut it into a fish shape, tie a rubber band between the body and the tail fin, and draw patterns with a pen.