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

Swaying Creation

[Kindergarten/Daycare] Rainy season craft / Hydrangea / How to make a fun June craft that gently sways ♡

Things that sway gently—lately, I feel like there are more seasonal advertising pop-ups hanging from the ceilings in supermarkets and convenience stores.

Not only children but adults will find their eyes drawn to them.

Making a gently swaying craft like that sounds fun too.

If you imagine a small mobile, the creation process should go smoothly.

For the hanging pieces, don’t just draw illustrations on paper—using cellophane or metallic gold and silver paper could spark even more imagination! Using yarn for the hanging thread will make it colorful as well.

Be sure to include motifs that evoke June, like hydrangeas and snails!

Playing campsite

[2-Year-Olds] Everything is handmade by the kids! Let's play campgrounds!

Here’s a handmade “pretend camping” activity you can enjoy outdoors, too.

Let’s make a tent—an essential for camping—by drawing pictures on a plastic bag with colored pens.

For fishing, blow up balloons and turn them into fish.

Talk about what colors you want your fish to be as you make them! For the barbecue, make the corn by wrapping bubble wrap to create the texture.

Prepare other foods like yakisoba and vegetables, and chat about what kind of barbecue you want while you make them.

A handmade camping day like this is sure to be a hit!

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Playing aquarium

[Ages 0–2] “Let’s Play Aquarium”

Here’s a fun pretend-aquarium activity that lets you feel cool during the hot and humid days of July.

Use blue plastic bags as a stand-in for the ocean and make your fish swim through it.

Create your favorite sea creatures—like whales, fish, starfish, and jellyfish—and you’ll encounter all kinds of ocean life.

If you also hang plastic bags from the ceiling and stick the sea creatures on them, the whole space will feel like an aquarium.

The best part is that people of any age can enjoy it!

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Summer wall display using paints

Easy summer/July wall display craft! Add ○○ to paint to draw beautiful lines [Kindergarten/Preschool]

In summer, even if things get dirty, the laundry dries quickly, doesn’t it? Here are some summer wall art ideas using paint that are perfect for July.

Put paint on bubble wrap wrapped around a paper cup, and stamp it onto the center of a sunflower like a stamp.

The bubble wrap’s texture makes the sunflower look three-dimensional.

For the water yo-yos you often see at summer festival stalls, mix glue into the paint and gently flick the brush to add color.

You’ll get wonderfully accidental patterns.

You can display them however you like, but decorating them in a festival stall style for a summery feel is also recommended!

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Sunflowers in swipe art

Let’s make a sunflower—the large bloom that faces the sun—using swipe art! Swipe art is a technique where you spread paint placed on drawing paper with cardboard or a sponge to create patterns.

This time, we’ll make the sunflower’s petals and leaves using this method.

First, create patterns with swipe art on a large sheet of drawing paper, then cut out the shapes of the petals and leaves.

For the center, which represents the seeds, cut a circle from drawing paper and use a stamp made from bubble wrap to add a pattern.

Once you glue together the petals, leaves, and seed center, it’s complete.

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Rainbow sandals in pastel

Since summer is very hot, you feel like wearing cool sandals instead of shoes, right? Here’s an idea inspired by those sandals.

Have the children place both feet on construction paper and trace around them with a pen to make footprints.

Then let the children dip their fingers in powdered pastels and color inside the footprints.

It’s more fun if you prepare a variety of pastel colors.

Cut out the footprints with scissors, glue them onto a backing sheet, attach thong straps made from transparent origami paper, and finish by adding a decorative pom-pom on top of the straps.

Create a colorful, summery piece of art!

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Festival food

There are all kinds of vendor stalls at summer festivals, aren’t there? Shaved ice and cotton candy are classics, and kids love them.

Here are some craft ideas for making foods you often see at festivals.

You can make festival foods like shaved ice, cotton candy, yakisoba, and takoyaki.

The materials differ depending on the item, but for example, for cotton candy, you can mix torn tissue paper with cotton and pack it into a bag.

For yakisoba, mix brown yarn with paper cutouts of cabbage and carrots, and use red yarn to represent pickled ginger.

Try making them with the kids while adding your own original touches!

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