[Childcare] Summer wall display ideas: fun summer craft activities
When you think of summer, it’s the season packed with fun activities like summer festivals, swimming in the ocean, fireworks displays, and Tanabata.
You’ll want your wall displays to be wonderful, too, so they convey the joy of summer to the children.
In this article, we’ll share ideas for summer wall displays.
Alongside classics like the sea and fireworks, we’ll also introduce ideas that incorporate delicious summer foods and seasonal events.
There are ideas you can make together with the children, so they’re great to include as craft activities.
For older preschoolers, it might be nice to discuss last summer’s memories and choose a theme based on that.
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[Childcare] Summer wall decoration ideas: fun summer crafts and activities (1–10)
Ryūgū-jō (Dragon Palace/Undersea Palace)
The dazzling Dragon Palace is a motif that children love.
Connect sheets of light-blue construction paper to create a large ocean, then attach depictions of Urashima Taro, a turtle, and colorful fish and seaweed.
For motifs you want to emphasize, cut and layer construction paper to give them expressive detail.
To convey the ocean’s clarity, using PE tape adds depth and variation, which is highly recommended.
If you decide on the overall composition and scale before starting, the piece will feel cohesive.
It’s also a good idea to share the smaller motifs across the whole school and have everyone collaborate.
fireworks
How about incorporating a summery fireworks motif into your wall decor? For a dynamic look, a semi-3D wall design is recommended.
Use construction paper to make several circles in different sizes and colors, then layer and paste them together.
Scatter ribbon curls evenly on top of the circles.
The key is to glue everything down firmly.
You can also add round stickers and star motifs to enhance the festive feel.
A sparkling fireworks wall will delight the children!
footprint-shaped watermelon
Why not make a cute watermelon using footprints? Stamp both feet in bright red on construction paper to represent the watermelon’s flesh.
Add the rind and seeds with green and black, and you’re done! The footprints also make a wonderful keepsake to record growth.
Summer is a time when children grow especially fast, so create a lovely piece that lets families celebrate that growth together.
Display the finished pieces side by side and enjoy a quiz-style game with the children: “Whose feet are these?” It’s sure to become a memorable page of your summer.
[Childcare] Summer Wall Display Ideas: Fun Summer Craft Activities (11–20)
morning glory
Let’s make morning glories using coffee filters.
Since you’ll use a color-bleeding technique, it’s great to get the children involved.
First, draw patterns on the coffee filter with washable markers.
Next, spray water with a mist bottle until the marker colors bleed.
Once the colors have bled, let it dry completely and gently open the filter.
When attaching the flowers to the wall, using chenille stems (pipe cleaners) for the vines and construction paper for the leaves will make them look more realistic.
It’s also a nice activity to connect with observing real morning glories!
shaved ice
How about a wall display with a summer-themed shaved ice motif? To create the soft, delicate look of shaved ice, we recommend using a bleeding watercolor technique.
If the children work on the bleeding art themselves, you can enjoy making it together.
Once the shaved ice pieces are done, expand the scene by adding more motifs like children and animals eating the shaved ice, or a shaved ice vendor’s stall.
As they look at the wall, the children might start chatting—“I like that color!” “That shaved ice looks delicious!” Create a lovely display that makes everyone feel as if they’ve just enjoyed a tasty shaved ice.
juice
Hot summer days make you crave a cold juice, don’t they? Let’s make a wall decoration inspired by delicious summertime juices.
You can simply cut glass shapes out of construction paper or origami paper and create the contents, but it’s also recommended to use wet-on-wet painting to make the colors of the juice more vibrant.
The blurred, blended colors are beautiful, convey the freshness of the juice, and creating various hues will make the display lively.
Try making them based on juices and colors that kids would love.
summer festival
Let’s boost the summer mood with a wall display themed around a summer festival! The key is to create lots of festival-specific motifs like lanterns, fans, water yo-yos, shaved ice, and takoyaki.
It’s also a great idea to survey the children on which motifs they want to make.
If you craft the lanterns so they can actually be hung as decorations, it will feel much more immersive.
This is perfect as an introduction for schools or daycare centers that hold a summer festival event! Put on some Bon Odori music, and the facility will instantly transform into a festival venue.