[For 5-year-olds] Let’s enjoy summer! Summer craft ideas for 5-year-olds
A hot summer when heatstroke precautions mean more time spent indoors.
Here are some fun craft ideas that let children feel the summer even inside! Themes that five-year-olds will enjoy include fireworks, watermelons, stag beetles, and sunflowers.
Crafts using summer motifs nurture children’s imagination and expressive skills, and help them develop fine motor skills, too.
These activities are perfect for five-year-olds, so try making a variety of things and enjoy a wonderful summer! Because the children’s creations are treated as artworks, this text uses the term “seisaku” (制作) to refer to them.
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[For 5-year-olds] Let’s Enjoy Summer! Summer Craft Ideas for 5-Year-Olds (91–100)
shaved ice
How about making shaved ice, a summer staple? If you make it together with your child, it will become a fun memory.
Create the bowl and ice parts with construction paper, and use tissue paper, raffia tape, or tissues to represent the ice.
Color the syrup with paints or crayons to complete a colorful shaved ice.
Using stamps makes it enjoyable even for small children.
The finished piece is perfect as a wall decoration for your room, too.
It’s a great way to feel cool during the hot summer.
Try making a one-of-a-kind shaved ice in your child’s favorite colors and shapes.
silky beach
Summer-themed art projects and activities not only let children enjoy the season, they also nurture their imagination! Let’s try expressing a beach atmosphere through art to boost those summer vibes.
Kids can color freely on construction paper shaped like a beach umbrella, or tear tissue paper to resemble beach sand and glue it onto paper.
With their free ideas, what kind of beach will they create? Both children and teachers will be excited to find out.
It would also be lovely to display the children’s drawings or photos under the umbrella!
Mr./Ms. Suisui Goldfish
Goldfish are a familiar sight at festivals.
The way they glide gracefully through the water feels so refreshing! Here’s a summer-themed craft idea inspired by goldfish.
First, take a sheet of construction paper to represent the surface of a fishbowl.
Put paint on some marbles and roll them across the paper to create patterns.
Next, cut a paper doily in half, fold both ends, and use red paint to stamp.
Finally, attach the patterned paper and goldfish parts to a fishbowl shape made from construction paper—and you’re done! With steps like marble rolling and stamping, it’s perfect for kids to enjoy, so have fun making it!
lantern
The lanterns that appear at summer festivals and during Obon have a plump, charming silhouette that makes them cute as decorations, and people are delighted to take them home.
First, draw any picture you like on a paper cup with colored pens.
Next, cut a strip of colored construction paper slightly longer than the height of the cup.
Tape this colored paper to the bottom and rim of the paper cup with cellophane tape.
Wrap black construction paper with double-sided tape around the bottom, then make a handle with twine, and you’re done.
It also seems like a great chance to naturally experience Japan’s traditional culture.
Rainbow Fish
This is a July seasonal art project inspired by the popular picture book The Rainbow Fish! First, use dark paint to draw a fish that fills the entire drawing paper.
By sketching a bold outline as the base, the colors will pop and look vibrant when you paint them in.
Once the paint is dry, use crayons or other materials to color the scales however you like! Finish by drawing the fish’s face and embellishing it with small squares of silver origami paper.
Open-ended painting projects like this nurture the creativity of five-year-olds, so be sure to incorporate them actively.
Wax-resist fireworks painting
How about enjoying fireworks sparkling in the summer night sky with a wax-resist painting? First, use crayons or oil pastels in your favorite colors to draw bright, colorful fireworks on drawing paper.
Then paint the entire sheet with black paint diluted with water to create the dark night sky where the fireworks spread.
Because crayons and oil pastels repel the paint, you can build a solid background without worrying about the black mixing into the fireworks.
If you also draw the spectators and the festival scene, you’ll have a lively picture of a fireworks display.
Turtle made with lacing
A turtle that shows off sunbathing on fine days.
Here’s a turtle craft idea using lacing.
Cut a paper plate in half and punch holes all around the edge.
After painting the paper plate with paints, use your favorite color of yarn to enjoy lacing and create the shell pattern.
If you wrap tape around the end of the yarn, it will be easier to thread through the holes.
Attach a head and legs made from construction paper, and your turtle is complete.
Draw the face with crayons or a pen to finish it cutely.
