Summer Crafts

With long evenings and warmer weather children are keen to spend more time outdoors. Take advantage of a glorious summer day to entertain the kids with an outdoor craft or creative activity.

Children of all ages love craft activities, enjoying the freedom to express themselves with creative and imaginative designs. Simply Stuck have come up with three fun ideas that are easy to adapt, and can be made using everyday items.

Painting & Garden Collage

Kids painting

Kids can take their favourite paints, craft papers and junk modelling pieces outside, spread them out on the grass, and let their imaginations run wild. Left over wall paper can be put to good use and is ideal for painting large landscape scenes. Plants, flowers, trees and insects can be used as inspiration or children can create their own abstract drawings.

Children love to experiment with creating their own colour mixes. From an early age they can learn about the primary colours red, blue, and yellow –  three colours that cannot be made by mixing other colours – and using two of these three colours to create a secondary colour.

Leaves and twigs can be added to give the painting a 3D dimension and add texture. They may need help with gluing heavier objects.

If they are not confident in drawing flowers, they can cut examples from magazines and add them to their creative collage.

Flower Mask Craft

Girls will love creating a floral face mass. The materials you will need are:

• A paper plate or a card circle made from an empty cereal box.
• Craft paper, white or coloured
• Glue or cellotape
• Lolly pop stick

Instructions:

• Cut the craft paper into the shape of a petal, you can get two petals per page.
• Decorate the petals with paints or markers, adding glitter for extra sparkly effect.
• Cut out the centre of the paper plate so the child’s head becomes the centre of the flower.
• Glue the petals all the way around the edge.
• Finally glue or celotape on the lolly pop stick as a handle.

Now the child can peek through the flower!

Boat Race

Paper boat

If it is not warm enough to go swimming in the paddling pool, why not make a fleet of boats and hold a boat race instead.

First make a large paper flag for each boat, painting them in different colours. Attach the flag to a lolly stick to create a sail and then use lots of celotape to attach the stick to the centre of a margarine tub or similar shape plastic tray. Place the boats in the paddling pool and blow on the sail.

The kids will have hours of fun , and enjoy lots of fresh air, with these summer craft ideas. If you want to add further to their creative designs take a look at the huge range of Simply Stuck stickers which will compliment any craft box of everyday household items. We have a huge variety of designs which are easy to use.

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