[For Upper Elementary Students] Simple but Awesome! A Collection of Summer Vacation Craft Ideas

cardboard safe

[Cardboard Craft] Opens with a card! Cardboard Safe!

Introducing a cardboard safe that won’t open unless you insert a card! The materials are wooden boards, thick paper, bamboo skewers, and so on.

If you don’t have thick paper, cardboard will work as a substitute.

You’ll also need scissors or a utility knife to cut the thick paper, wood glue to attach the wooden boards and thick paper, and a saw to shape the wooden boards as needed.

The safe itself is just a regular box, but the key part is the card-insertion mechanism on top.

It uses a lever principle for the trick.

Since it requires precise planning, it’s recommended for upper elementary school students.

It’s hard to finish in a single day, but the sense of accomplishment when you complete it is guaranteed! Give it a try!

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Simple salt sand art

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This is about layering different colors of salt in a glass to create a picture-like, beautiful look.

Start by making colors that match what you want to create: mix paint into the salt to prepare it.

Once your colored salt is ready, simply layer it into the glass.

It’s best to pay attention to the boundaries between colors and avoid overmixing.

After filling the glass, press the layers to compact them—you can aim for more complex shapes this way.

Try various patterns to see what you can achieve.

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[Kids’ Easy Craft] Everything from the 100-yen shop! Aquarium Snow Globe DIY — Perfect for Christmas or a Summer Vacation Project!

A classic craft idea! Let’s make a snow globe.

This is a super easy idea that older elementary kids can make on their own! You’ll need a jar with a lid, a sponge, small items to put inside the snow globe, glitter, liquid laundry starch (or laundry glue), and water.

Cut the sponge into a circle and attach it to the inside of the lid, then glue the small items onto the sponge.

Put glitter in the jar, then add the laundry starch and water at a 1:1 ratio and mix.

Finally, screw on the lid and you’re done! You can also tie a ribbon around it to make it extra cute.

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Making a marble run with an ice box

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Summer is the season that makes you crave ice cream, and as you eat it, you might find the boxes piling up.

This idea uses those leftover ice cream boxes to make a marble run.

Use a large box, like a milk carton, as the base, and attach slopes made by cutting the ice cream boxes around it.

Adjust the angles and heights carefully, keeping in mind the strength needed so it won’t break when the marbles hit.

Using ice cream sticks to reinforce it is also recommended—they’ll make the whole thing sturdier and give it a cohesive look.

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Craft ideas made with origami and a shredder

Let’s use the shredding function that cuts paper into fine strips to create various shapes.

We’ll use a hand-crank shredder, and by controlling where you stop shredding and other small tricks, you can make different parts and combine them.

Food motifs are an easy example: if you insert long, thin strips sideways and shred them even finer, they can look like a coating or breading; roll up long, thin strips and they’ll resemble shredded cabbage.

By layering parts and experimenting with how you bend them, you can also add a sense of three-dimensionality.

Think carefully about how to reproduce what you want to make.

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Spinning piggy bank

Why not make a fun piggy bank where the coins spin as they go in? It’s a perfect idea for a summer vacation craft.

First, slice a milk carton into rings, press the corners to flatten the center space, and make four “blades” to form a propeller.

Decorate the edges with vinyl tape, and make two large propellers and four small ones in the same way.

Skewer a large propeller on a bamboo stick, then add two small propellers on each side to create a spinning mechanism.

Insert this into a clear tube, make a coin slot in the lid, put the lid on, and you’re done.

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Easy Spinning Top Made from a Milk Carton

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Here’s an idea for making a spinning top you blow on using a milk carton.

First, cut the carton about 1.5 cm up from the bottom, then make slits at the four corners and open it up.

Next, rotating the carton in a consistent direction from each corner, cut along the edges of the bottom.

Leave about 1 cm uncut at the ends.

Bend the sections you just cut inward so they gather toward the center, and decorate with masking tape or stickers to finish.

If you blow straight down from above, it will spin around and around.

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