Summer is here! Keep your kids busy with these crafts and ideas:
50 Ways to Get Children to Love Reading from Read-Aloud.
OUTDOOR PROJECTS & NATURE CRAFTS
Tie Dyed t-shirts from Kaboose.
Bubble Mixture from Suite 101.
Sunprint Tutorial from The Light Garden.*
Seashell Garden from Urban Organica.
Hammered Flower and Leaf Prints from Build/Make/Craft/Bake.
Painted Rock Crafts from Martha Stewart.
Milk Carton Bird Feeder from Kaboose.
Make a Kite from Storm the Castle.
Paper Bag Wind Sock from Canadian Living.
Paper Boat that Floats from wikiHow.
Mosaic Bird Bath from The Seattle Times.
Footprint Garden Stepping Stones from Make Baby Stuff.
Sidewalk Chalk from Alpha Mom.
Sidewalk Chalk Paint from ohdeedoh.*
Grass Head Monster from Activity Village.
Stone Dolls from Maya Made.
How to Play Hopscotch from Quiet Fish.
Build a Fairy House from Light-Beams Publishing.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Homemade Playdough from The Long Thread.
Flower Pinwheels from Alpha Mom.*
Recycled Crayons from Make and Takes.
Fairy Wings from Threadbanger (see our kid version here).
Kaleidoscopes from Se7en.
Pressed Flower Art from Mom in Madison.
God’s Eyes summer camp yarn craft from Wise Craft.*
T-shirt weaving from Alpha Mom.*
Tissue Paper Butterflies from Marie for Design Mom.*
Make Your Own Fingerpaint from The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Clothespin Dolls at Going Sew Crazy.
Vacation Memory Jars from Martha Stewart.
Cardboard Dollhouse from Esprit Cabane.*
Scratch Foam Block Printing from Glitter Goods.
Dr. Seuss inspired ooblek (like gooey liquid playdough) with Skip to my Lou.
Watercolor Resist Painting from Bookhou Craft Projects BloesemKids.
Recycled Newspaper Beads from A Storybook Life.*
Tin Can Stilts from Kaboose.
Rain Sticks from Creative Kids at Home.
Party Poppers from Little Birdie Secrets.
Tension Rod Puppet Theater from Sycamore Stirrings.
Mexican Metal Tooling from Restoration Place.
Colorful Bean Bag Balls from Family Fun.
Canvas Checkerboard from Martha Stewart.
Friendship Bracelets from wikiHow.
Fabric Scrap Braided Necklace from cakies.
SUMMER EATS
Make ice cream in a coffee can from Homemade Ice Cream Makers.
Watermelon Carving Ideas from the National Watermelon Promotion Board.
10 Frozen Treats for Summer Family Fun.
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam from Soule Mama.
Raspberry Lemonade from Joy the Baker.*
*pictured above.
Thanks so much for the list . . . and the shout out!
Wonderful list – thanks so much!!
Thank you SO MUCH for the fabulous list!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙂 Awesome list.
You are the greatest for compiling this list! I think this blog post might singlehandedly save my sanity this summer! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am going to send this on to friends!
Brilliant!! Thank you so much, what a fantastic resource.. Absolutely brilliant!
What a nice surprise! Brilliant post I have been popping around the blogosphere all evening looking at your fifty goodies – lovely! Thanks for linking us!
I love kids’ crafts! Did anyone else stay put in the “craft barn” at summer camp as a kid like I did?
Check out my tissue-paper tie dye too! http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2009/05/tissue-paper-dye/
Thanks for the great ideas and resources… I see some new new sites that I am looking forward to browsing over my morning cup of tea 🙂
So inspired I just Kirtsy’d it 🙂 Check out the front page…
This list pretty much rocks and then some!
you have done some research, girl. what great resources
thanks
Awesome list! I linkd to this in my Friday Favorites!
This is a great great list. Thanks for compiling. I’m going to be returning to the US in a month and starting to do home child care soon thereafter and there are some great ideas here I plan on using 🙂 I especially like the dollhouse.
Fantastic list! What a spectacular resource. Thank you so much for compiling and sharing.
This is such great crafts… I love these my kids enjoy these soo much!
You’re website/blog has become my absolute FAVORITE!
Great incentives…I’m heading to the craft store 🙂 My lil one will love these projects.
Thanks.
Thank you so much for these ideas! My son has a sensory disorder and some of these will be great therapy for him!
What a wonderful collection of activities. This pretty much takes care of anyone’s activity planning needs for the rest of the Summer… The only problem? Where to start! 😉 Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! What a great list. We will not be bored for a second this summer.
Linked to this on my weekly roundup – post is linked under my name. Thanks!!
oh my gosh these are great thanks so much for sharing
wow! I LOVE all these ideas!!
What an awesome list.
Already thinking about how to keep kids busy in the Seattle Fall and Winter.
THANK YOU!!!
THANK YOU!!!!!! Looking forward to many more things to do with my 3 year old. Love your site!!!
Wow! Thank you for this resource. Now I can’t wait for next summer! There’s no quality time like crafting together. Got to do that tension rod pupper theater!
Thanks this collection is really good.Everything link is worth visiting and trying.
There are so many great things here! Thanks so much!
Great list, but I think you accidentally left out the ‘Mini Chocolate Dipped Bananas’ from Joy the Baker.
Great list, but I think you accidentally left out the ‘Mini Chocolate Dipped Bananas’ from Joy the Baker. ~H
http://www.joythebaker.com/blog/2009/07/mini-chocolate-dipped-bananas/
Awesome list!!
We are making tie dye shirts next week for the fourth of July!
What a gem to have all these goodies in one post! You totally rock!
These are great! We are incorporating sea shell gardens and sidewalk chalk and so many of these really great ideas…
What a great list!
Loved this! Thank you so much. This will be wonderful for the coming months. Hope you don’t mind, but I shared on my facebook, Ladyofthebarn and @ladyofthebarn twitter.
The ideas are really great. Thank you, I’ll keep watching other ideas, for my 3 years daughter.
Just left my little girl to paint herself with eastern paint 🙂 She made really beautiful painting with her hands and different colors.
This will be my third summer “following” this list. So many great ideas. As each year goes by it’s fun to see how each craft becomes more age appropriate for my girls who are now 6 and 4. We love the sidewalk paint but there are so many cool ideas to keep kids (and adults) busy and inspired. Love this list and I share it all the time.
Thank you so much… you safed my summer!!
Good resource.thanks a lots
You have given me some fabulous ideas to use with my Alzheimer group! They thank you a bunch!!
Hi
Thanks for keepin’ things eco-friendly.
Just want to share what my students are doing.
http://ecogreen4fun.blogspot.com/
Cheers – Neko
thank you soooo much for this list my family and i are having so much fun for doing these things it brought us closer together.
::Swoon:: what a great list! I can’t wait to get started!
I love this list. Thank you!
Hi, Ellen! I LOVE your 50 Summer Crafts for Kids!! Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂 Stopping by to let you know that I featured your fabulous post on my blog today as one of my favorite Summer Fun pins!! http://www.chattingoverchocolate.com/2013/06/pinteresting-ideas-for-summer-fun-with.html
Wishing you and your family a beautiful Summer! 🙂
I tried to access ice cream in a can from Homemade Ice Cream Makers and the page cant be found. Can you help me out?
So many great ideas! love em! i will feature this on my FB site
Mia