[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 display ideas. Fun summer craft activities (91–100)
Dyed shoji paper fireworks painting
If you add color to shoji paper using the dye-painting technique, you can create calm, very elegant fireworks! Dye-painting is done by folding shoji paper several times and applying watercolor paint dissolved in water.
When you unfold it, softly blurred colors appear, and it looks so beautiful! I recommend applying several colors together on a single sheet.
After the paint dries—or before applying the paint—if you make various cuts with scissors as you would for kirie (paper cutting), you can also create fireworks patterns.
You can do this with washi calligraphy paper (hanshi) as well, so please give it a try.
Wall Art Activity with Watermelons (Ages 3–5)
This watermelon craft lets you enjoy fun details like fingertip seed stamps and a pipe-cleaner stem.
First, cut the red origami paper into a half-circle.
Next, fold the green origami paper in half and cut it into many small rectangles.
Glue the green rectangles along the straight edge of the red half-circle to make a watermelon.
For the seeds, dip your fingertip in black paint and stamp them on.
For another watermelon, cut the green origami paper into a circle and paint the watermelon rind pattern with black paint.
Bend a pipe cleaner to make a stem and glue it to the top.
It’s also fun to stick your finished watermelons onto a backing sheet wherever you like!
Osakana Maru Uchiwa
Sure to be a hit in summer! How about making a cool fish-shaped fan with the kids? First, cut two pieces of thick paper into circles, then cut out the round handle area and a fish shape from each.
Next, attach a piece of clear plastic file, cut larger than the fish shape, to one of the thick paper circles.
On top of that, stick randomly cut pieces of cellophane, imagining fish scales as you go.
Finally, glue the two pieces of thick paper together and draw the fish’s eye to finish.
Decorate freely by drawing pictures or adding stickers.
The bright summer sun will make the fish sparkle even more and boost that summertime feeling!
Guri and Gura’s Seaside Swim
Let’s try making a craft inspired by the picture book “Guri and Gura’s Seaside Adventure.” First, use blue and white paint on light blue construction paper to create waves.
Prepare the environment so the children can freely express themselves.
Make Guri and Gura using origami—don’t forget their trademark red and blue hats.
Next, cut out two swim rings from construction paper.
Finally, glue all the parts onto the paper, and it’s complete! Just looking at it will make you feel like you’re at the beach.
You know, Mr. Corn…
Corn, known as a summer vegetable.
How about making the corn character that appears in the picture book “Tōmorokoshi-kun ga ne”? This corn character actually has a fun mechanism: its arms and legs dangle and move, and the husk can be peeled.
Cut the main body of Tōmorokoshi-kun out of colored construction paper and use finger stamps to represent the kernels.
Draw the leaf patterns using a toothbrush, then attach the leaves to the body with a paper fastener.
It would be nice to read the picture book aloud and play with your finished Tōmorokoshi-kun together.
