Learning to sew is loads of fun with this simple Paper Plate Shark Sewing Craft. This adorable shark craft is great for building hand-eye-coordination and fine motor skills. A fun activity for Shark Week, Summer and ocean study units!
Latest Summer Crafts
Fairy and Unicorn Clothespin Dolls
Fairy and Unicorn Clothespin Dolls are a delightful spin on traditional peg dolls! Simple to make and quite magical! Everyone will love these pocket sized homemade dolls to play with.
DIY Watermelon Pinwheel Craft
Fun and fruity Watermelon Pinwheels are so quick and easy to make! They’re great for kids to play with and make gorgeous Summer party decorations too.
Cute Paper Butterfly Craft
How adorably cute are these Paper Butterflies? Glue them to craft sticks for puppets, hang as a mobile or display on the wall. So versatile! (free printable pattern)
Cardboard Tube Racing Car Craft
Do you like to recycle trash into cute crafts? Then you’ll love these Cardboard Tube Racing Cars! With our free printable wrap around covers it’s easy to give your cars handsome sporty stripes!
Cute Round Pirate Craft
Shiver me timbers, aren’t these the cutest pirates? You can make a pirate captain or members of the crew and each is adorable with their nautical stripes and shiny cutlasses! A fantastic Summer craft for the kids and great for International Talk Like A Pirate Day too!
Fun Outside Activities
Pretty Round Suncatcher Craft
The Summer sunshine just calls out for pretty suncatchers on the windows doesn’t it? Here’s a super easy tissue paper suncatcher craft that kids of all ages can enjoy. But be prepared they are so beautiful the kids won’t want to stop at just making one!
Coastal Foraging For Food-Survival Skills For Kids
Have you tried coastal foraging? The kids will love getting outside and connecting with Nature as they gather and cook their own food for free! Check out what we got up with this survival skills for kids activity.
Footprint Trail Beach Detective Game
Do your kids enjoy mysteries? Are they super inquisitive? Test your kids’ observation and descriptive skills and spark their imaginations with this fun Footprint Trail BEACH DETECTIVE GAME for budding super sleuths!
Water Play STEM Projects For Kids
Do your kids enjoy playing with water? Here are 16 exciting STEM activities based on fun water play ideas that kids will love, love, love! All of these water play STEM projects will get kids immersed and hands on with the important curriculum areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Perfect educational fun for Summer!
Fabric Clothespin Butterfly Craft
This cute and colourful FABRIC CLOTHESPIN BUTTERFLY CRAFT is easy and cheap to make and kids will love to clip them around the house or garden as cheerful decorations. They’re perfect for keeping kids busy, creative and enjoying the outdoors during the Summer holidays.
Rainbow Crafts
Rainbow Cotton Ball Painting
Everybody loves a rainbow! This Rainbow Cotton Ball Painting activity is lots of fun, looks amazing and gives kids the opportunity to use and develop their motor skills and hand-eye co-ordination too. Painting with cotton balls is super exciting for kids and a great way to broaden their painting experiences away from just traditional paintbrushes.
Easy St Patrick’s Day Rainbow Treat Bags
Do you need a super quick and easy rainbow activity for the kids? These St Patrick’s Day Rainbow Treat Bags are simple and fun to make and a lovely thrifty gift idea to share with friends too. Great if you’re needing St Patrick’s Day treats for a whole class and don’t want to break the bank!
Rainbow Tangle Beads – Easy Polymer Clay Beads
These Gorgeous Rainbow Tangle Beads are easy enough for kids and grown ups to make. They are so colourful, fun and quirky and always look amazing! Grab your polymer clay and come join the fun.
Gorgeous Rainbow Sky Sensory Bottles
Sensory play is so important to our children’s development right from the word go. These Rainbow Sky Sensory Bottles are easy and thrifty to make and look gorgeous. They bring all that natural beauty and magic of seasonal changes around right indoors where it can be enjoyed close up again and again.
Gorgeous Handprint Rainbow Painting
Painting can be a wonderfully creative and sensory experience for kids. HANDPRINT RAINBOW PAINTING lets children get really “hands-on” with paints and explore colour mixing and blending. A super fun and colourful art experience for St Patrick’s Day and weather study themes.
Latest Animal and Insect Crafts
Cardboard Tube Unicorn Craft
Who can resist unicorns? Don’t they just capture all things childhood and magical? Here’s the most adorable Cardboard Tube Unicorn Craft that your children will simply fall in love with. They’re easy to make and their fingerprint rosy cheeks add a lovely personal touch! They’re sure to spark lots of imaginative play and story telling for days to come.
Paper Weaving Seahorse Craft
Try this gorgeous Paper Weaving Seahorse Craft. One of a three part Beach Paper Weaving Series which includes an adorable Paper Weave Fish and Paper Weave Crab too. Each craft comes with a free printable template so you can get straight to crafting with the kids. You’re going to want to make them all!
Cute and Fun Crab Hats
Whether you’re heading to the beach or playing with sand and water at home, you’re going to want to make one of our most favourite Summer crafts yet, Cute And Fun Crab Hats! These homemade crab headbands are simply adorable and easy to make with our free printable template. Don’t you just want to see the whole family wearing them right this instant? So cute, so fun!
Paper Weaving Crab Craft
Do your kids enjoy visiting the beach? We do and searching for crabs is one of our all time favourite things to do when we get there! Whether your kids are lucky enough to meet a crab in the flesh or whether they just enjoy reading about them in books this Paper Weaving Crab Craft is a must for Summer! To make it nice and easy we’ve got a Free Printable Crab Template you can use too.
Colourful Butterfly Masks
Are your kids as fascinated with the butterfly lifecycle as we are? These Colourful Butterfly Masks are a fantastic way to celebrate the wonder of butterflies and engage children in learning all about them. They’re easy to make with our free printable template and a fun way to introduce children to symmetry and pattern making too.
