30+ Summer Crafts For Kids Of All Ages | Summer Activities 2025
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boredom-busting summer crafts that will keep the kids entertained way past bedtime
Celebrate the upcoming summer season with 30+ easy to make summer crafts guaranteed to provide hours of fun.
The 2024-2025 school year is almost complete! These last 2 months seem to drag on endlessly as kids everywhere count down the days until summer break. Summer break means endless possibilities for fun! From indoor activities to outdoor activities, kids seem to have double the energy during the summer.
While their energy levels may always seem high, inevitably, the dreaded “I’m bored” can be heard throughout the house.
Luckily I’ve rounded up the best, most fun, kid-approved summer crafts for kids of all ages. These crafts are perfect for keeping the kids busy & their creativity flowing. Fun, easy, DIY summer crafts that are perfect for those long summer days. All crafting skills welcome. From the advanced crafter to tiny little hands.
Perfect for summer break, rainy days, or anytime you’re looking for something fun to do with the kids. Featuring recycled material crafts, beach themed crafts, & mess-free crafts, I promise you will never hear “I’m bored” every again.
I’ve made sure to include mess-free crafts, because, lets be honest, no one wants to spend a warm summer evening cleaning up glue and glitter. Leave the mess and the stress behind & trust me, you might never go back.
Create adorable keepsakes that you’ll cherish for years to come.
Pin these to your Summer Activities boards!
boredom-busting summer crafts that will keep the kids entertained way past bedtime
Ice Cream Cone Garland
Fun & festive summer decoration that’s also super easy to make.
Using yarn and 6″ paper plates, you can create your own yarn garland to display as your delightful summer home decor.
Mini Fairy Garden Flower Pots
Spend some time outdoors, getting in your vitamin D, while making these super cute mini fairy garden pots.
Tiny terracotta pots, which can be found at your local dollar store, washi tape and markers are all you need!
You can also make these to gift to family and friends.
Place these in your garden for any fairies that might be stopping by!
Folded Paper Sunflowers
DIY Rainbow Sun Hat
Water Gun Painting – Kids Kubby
beach bucket craft – Juniors Art and diy
Summer DIY Jenga – Julia Nowak
Paper Chain Octopus – the mommy mess
ice cream painted rocks – projects with kids
Yarn turtle craft
Fun & easy beach-inspired craft that you can also use for fun imaginary play.
Using pom poms made out of yarn and card stock, you can create these fun yarn turtles. Use crayons or markers to decorate the turtles arms and legs, and googly eyes for eyes.
Painted Rainbow and Pom Pom Tote Bags
Help the kids to create something fun and unique that they can carry with them wherever they go.
A little fabric plaint and some pom pm markers, you can paint rainbows (or any design that you’d like) onto canvas totes (or aprons & t-shirts).
For this rainbow design, pom poms are added with a got glue gun for pretty fluffy rainbow clouds.
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3. Popsicle Stick Bird Feeder | Made With Happy
4. Pool Noodle Boats | The Best Ideas For Kids
5. Easy Paper Sun Craft | Crafting A Fun Life
6. Paper Fan Watermelon Craft | The Kindergarten Connection
7. Adorable Ice Cream Painted Rocks | Projects With Kids
8. Paper Jellyfish Craft For Kids | Crafts By Ria
DIY Beaded Wind Chime
Create this DIY beaded wind chime with supplies from your local dollar store!
Add some colourful fun to all of the windows and doorways around your home.
Paper Loop Pufferfish Craft
Simple, easy to make summer craft for preschoolers.
Using card stock and markers, you can staple the paper together to have your fishies pop up on the page.
Use markers to add the face and bubbles to your super cute paper loop puffer fish.
Popsicle Stick Beach House
The BFG Paper Plate Dream Catchers Craft
Paper Plate Campfire Craft
Roast your paper marshmallows together with this mess-free summer craft for kids.
Threading the yarn through the hole encourages fine motor skills & kids will spend hours playing with this interactive craft.
Handprint Fish Puppets
Super fun and super easy to make. All you need is some coloured construction paper, scissors, glue and markers or crayons.
Have fun creating your fish, and create several fish puppets to create an underwater puppet show.
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3. Foil Painting Campfire Craft | Crafts On Sea
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6. Tropical Tote Bags Craft | Doodle Craft Blog
7. Colorful Cardboard Ice Cream Cone Craft | Crafting A Fun Life
8. Paper Plate Beach Ball Craft | About A Mom
Beaded Pipe Cleaner Dragonflies
Make this simple summer inspired craft with the kids roday.
Using pipe cleaners and beads, you simply fold and bend the pip cleaners to create cute dragonflies.
So easy and fun for even the littlest of hands.
Mermaid Handprint Craft For Kids
Mermaids, undoubtedly one of the best things abut summer.
Trace your kids handprint onto cardstock or construction paper to create the flowy mermaid hair.
Download the free printable here, to make this super easy mermaid craft.
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2. Driftwood and Beach Treasure Mobile | Ilenia Manineecodine
3. Puffy Paint Ice Cream Cone | Crafting A Fun Life
4. Terra Cotta Pot Garden Mushrooms | Crafty Morning
5. Popsicle Tissue Paper Craft | Made With Happy
6. Paper Plate Beach Craft | Little Ladoo
7. DIY Watermelon Coasters | Made Ro Be A Momma
8. Handprint Crab Craft | Little Ladoo
Stained Glass Butterfly Wings Costume
Get the kids to dress up and have their imaginations run wild with this fun mess-free butterfly wigs costume.
Suring cardboard, candy wrappers and plastic wrap, your kids can spend hours pretending to be a butterfly or fairy.
boredom-busting summer crafts that will keep the kids entertained way past bedtime
Fun, super easy to make summer themed crafts that are guaranteed to provide hours of fun. Make these summer crafts anytime you are looking for something fun to do with the kids.
Have a summer craft idea that you’ve made and like to share? Leave it in the comments below!
Make a summer-inspired craft with the kids today!
Pin these to your Summer Activities boards!
Cheers,
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