[For 5-year-olds] Let’s enjoy summer! Summer craft ideas for 5-year-olds

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I am an active nursery school teacher with 9 years of experience. After graduating from university, I worked at a daycare center. The time I spent happily with children—playing piano, singing songs, and doing finger-play—are priceless memories to me. Currently, while raising three children of my own, I work at an after-school day service, engaging with children and providing individualized developmental support. Drawing on my diverse experiences as a childcare worker and as a mother, I hope to express and convey my thoughts through writing.

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.

[For 5-year-olds] Enjoy Summer! Summer Craft Ideas for 5-Year-Olds (111–120)

Goldfish Kendama

Let’s give the classic, kid-favorite toy kendama a summery twist! In this version, the ball becomes a goldfish and the cup becomes an aquarium.

First, cut a plastic bottle in half.

Use the half with the spout.

Poke a hole in the cap, thread yarn through it, secure it so it won’t slip out, and screw the cap back onto the bottle.

On the other end of the yarn, sandwich it between two caps and wrap red tape around them.

Use raffia (suzuran tape) to make the tail, and add round stickers for the eyes to complete the goldfish.

Then decorate the plastic bottle so it looks like an aquarium, and you’re done.

An adult should cut the plastic bottle and cover the cut edge with tape for safety.

Raise the rankinglower

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In conclusion

We introduced some recommended summer craft ideas for five-year-olds.

When doing crafts with five-year-old children, encourage them in a way that helps their imaginations grow about how they want to create things, and, while discussing together, actively incorporate their ideas into the project.

You’ll surely end up with wonderful works full of each child’s individuality.

We hope you can spend fulfilling time indoors while still feeling the summer season.