Handmade ideas for summer decorations. Perfect for interior decor and craft activities!
When summer comes, you start wanting to decorate your rooms with cool, refreshing interiors.
In this article, we’ll introduce handmade ideas for summer decorations.
From authentic summer decor you’ll want to display at home to projects that can be used in childcare and eldercare settings—and ideas that will delight at events like Tanabata—we’ve got you covered.
There are many types of decorations, such as garlands, hanging ornaments, and wreaths, so try finding ideas that perfectly suit where you want to display them.
Let’s make summer a bit more comfortable with cool-looking decorations.
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Handmade ideas for summer decorations. Perfect for interior decor and craft activities! (61–70)
Morning glory wall decoration
How about incorporating morning glories—the quintessential summer flower—into your summer festival decorations? Here, we’ll share an idea for making morning glories using coffee filters.
Roll a coffee filter into a loose cone and dab watered-down paint onto the tip.
Open it up and let it dry, then shape it so it looks like a morning glory and secure it with a rubber band.
Finally, decorate a bamboo screen with the blossoms along with leaves and vines made from colored construction paper.
When displayed on a wall, it will look as if real morning glories are blooming there.
Try making them in your favorite colors—blue, pink, or purple.
Bamboo grass made with origami
On Tanabata, there’s also a custom of attaching paper strips with wishes written on them to decorated bamboo branches.
How about decorating with origami bamboo as well? Take several sheets of green origami paper cut into rectangles and fold them so they gradually become narrower.
When connecting the pieces, the key is to add white areas from the back side of the paper and fold lines to mimic real bamboo nodes.
Also make bamboo leaves and the slender branches that hold the leaves.
To give it a Tanabata feel, you can make stars, Orihime, and Hikoboshi and attach them to the bamboo—it should turn into a cute piece.
Iced Deco Cup
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Let’s make an “icy deco cup” using interior stones and a cup sold at 100-yen shops.
All you need is your favorite cup, interior stones, a hot glue gun, and any decorative parts you like.
It’s really simple to make—just use the glue gun to attach the interior stones and parts to the cup! If you choose clear, colorless parts to match the interior stones, the whole thing will look like an ice glass.
You can use store-bought parts, or if you’re good with resin, you can make your own.
Aroma Fragrance
If you’re looking for an easy, summery craft, I recommend making an aroma fragrance jar! Prepare a jar, gel ice packs, blue food coloring, essential oils, and decorations like marbles or seashells.
First, fill the jar about one-third full with the gel from the ice packs and add the food coloring to tint it.
Once the color is set, add more gel and a few drops of your favorite essential oil.
Finally, add the decorations and put the lid on—you’re done! Using blue food coloring with marbles or seashells makes it look like you’ve captured the sea inside the jar.
Try creating one with your favorite theme!
interior box
How about making an interior decor box using a lidded box from a 100-yen shop? Line the inside of the box with a fabric you like using wood glue, then use a glue gun to attach anything you like on top of the fabric—such as seashells, beads, glass sand, or pearl beads.
Not only seashells—if you also enclose mementos from that time, it could become a keepsake box that preserves your memories.
You can also make use of other stylish accessories and items sold at 100-yen shops!
Sea Creatures Garland
How about a cute ocean-themed garland for summer? Starfish, hermit crabs, seahorses, garden eels—so many sea creatures with distinctive looks come to mind! It’s also great to make with your kids, so give it a try.
The basics are simply cutting and pasting origami or construction paper.
Try crafting each creature with its characteristic silhouette in mind.
You can hang them in a row horizontally or vertically, depending on the size of your wall.
Using not only solid-color origami but also patterned or glittery paper as accents will give it a stylish finish!
OPP Tape Pressed Flower Stickers
Pressed flowers let you enjoy beautiful blooms for a long time.
Why not turn those pressed flowers into stylish stickers? They’re great for adding a little touch to letters, notebooks, or planners, and also perfect as flake stickers for gifts! First, stick OPP tape onto a piece of baking paper, arrange your favorite pressed flowers on top, then place another layer of tape over them to seal.
Finally, cut each one out, leaving a small margin—and you’re done! Even failed pressed flowers or tiny scraps of materials can be reborn as cute stickers, so definitely give it a try!
Shaved ice wall decoration
Shaved ice, a summer festival staple, is a beloved treat for kids and adults alike.
Let’s make shaved-ice decorations to boost the summer festival vibe! After crafting the ice and bowl from construction paper, turn it into your favorite flavor by layering colored paper on top or by painting with watercolors or coloring with pencils.
You can also use a tampo (sponge dauber) to add color.
Using a tampo makes it easy to create the soft, bleeding effect of syrup soaking into the ice, so it’s highly recommended.
Try making shaved ice in a variety of “flavors” and stick them on the wall or on signs around the festival venue.
Seagull mobile
Why not try making a summery seagull mobile? Prepare white construction paper for the seagulls and make them in whatever size you like.
Once you’ve made them, draw their faces and add color to the beaks and wingtips.
Fluff the wings open and attach a small loop between the wings for hanging.
Thread fishing line or similar material through while checking the balance.
Adding clouds or beads as well as seagulls makes it even cuter.
Create a wire frame as the hanging base and suspend the pieces so they’re well balanced.
It’s a very cute mobile that sways in the breeze.
Watermelon streamers
This streamer is themed around watermelon, a symbol that instantly evokes summer and could be called a quintessential summer tradition.
Its spherical, watermelon-like shape and the design that recalls a sliced piece not only suit Tanabata decorations, but also bring out the feeling of summer itself.
Its cool, wind-chime-like appearance might even help take the edge off the heat.
It’s easy to make, so it’s recommended as a craft for children as well.
With its vivid look, it’s a decoration that sets the scene for the Tanabata season.
