Summer Sand Castle Beach Craft

For Summer School or beach theme, you can make a cute sand castle on the beach.

Materials:

• sheet of blue construction paper
• beige construction paper
• a little white paper
• scissors
• glue
• yellow tissue paper
• toothpick
• crab template
• novelty sea/beach pasta or shell pasta
• paints, brushes, trays

Directions:

1. Beforehand, paint various theme pasta in different colors and allow to dry.
2. Cut a simple sand castle shape from beige/tan paper, crinkle it up and smooth out again for a textured surface.
3. Cut the yellow tissue paper into little squares and glue on the bottom third of the blue paper for the beach.
4. Cut and decorate a little triangular flag from white paper and glue to a toothpick.
5. Glue the sand castle on the beach with the flag behind and glue on the pasta shells.
6. Glue on a little crab and add a sun if you wish.

Desert Animals Sandstorm Craft

I was inspired by the arctic animals snowstorm craft idea and wanted to make one for desert animals in a sandstorm. This technique uses an old toothbrush to splatter the paint over a template. I really like the effect. This is great if you're doing a unit on desert animals. Here, I used a camel, tortoise, and scorpion, but you could use others.

Materials:

• tan construction paper
• yellow paint and tray
• old toothbrush
• desert animal templates
• card stock
• scissors
• glue

Directions:

1. Find some simple desert animal stencil templates such as camel, scorpion, tortoise, armadillo, road runner, etc. and cut out from card stock.
2. Lightly glue the templates onto beige or tan paper so they stay in place. This is important as after becoming wet, the templates will start to curl.
3. Dillute some yellow paint in a tray with a little water. Dip your toothbrush in the paint, and using your thumb, flick the paint all around the edges of the animal templates.
4. Remove the templates and allow to dry. It will look like the animals are walking through a sandstorm.

Here's the arctic animals version:

Easy Toilet Paper Roll Kaleidoscope Craft

Here's a really simple recycled toilet roll kaleidoscope craft for kids. Actually it's not a proper kaleidoscope, nothing turns or needs a mirror. This is a perfect for Kindergarten or Elementary students. Te one pictured above was taped to the window, but you can just hold it up to the light.

Materials:

• toilet roll tube
• colorful cellophane
• non-sticky, reflective/holographic tape
• colorful paper
• decorative tape or paper
• scotch tape
• wax paper
• scissors
• glue

Directions:

1. Cut a toilet roll tube into 1/4 sized rolls.
2. Roll and glue holographic/reflective tape into very small loops or tear drop shapes. 
3. Lay the 1/4 toilet roll on the table and fill with the reflective loops.
4. Place small, irregular pieces of various colored cellophane over the top of the roll and tape everything in place with clear, scotch tape. Now, one end of the toilet roll is completely closed and looks like a small stained glass window and there are little reflective loops inside. 
5. Turn over the toilet roll.
6. Trace the toilet roll opening on wax paper and cut out with a little extra around the traced circle. 
7. Place the wax paper over the open end of the roll and tape the sides down securely. 
8. Now decorate the outside of the toilet roll with colorful adhesive tape, stickers, or paper .
9. Hold the the kaleidoscope roll up to a light or window and look through the wax paper end. Roll with your fingers and see the swirls of various colors.

Umbrella and Raindrop Number Match Preschool Activity

Here's a great math activity to do with toddlers or preschoolers. The theme is matching raindrops to a numbered umbrella. This is a great summer or spring math game. Follow the link below for an instructional video on this fun

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Hairy Friends Recycled Craft

Here's a great idea for a summer or recycled craft project. Spray paint a margarine tub, Decorate a face with whatever you like, then fill with soil and grass seed to grow hair. This is similar to the eggheads craft, but will last a lot longer. Visit the great site below for the full details.


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10. Ocean in a Bottle Craft

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13. Summer Jellyfish Bottle Craft

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14. Handprint and Footprint Lobster Craft

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17. Easy Rainbow Fish CD Craft

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19. Pop Pop "Ponyo" Boat Craft

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20. Recycled Bottle Jet Pack Craft

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21. Origami Paper Pinwheel Craft Toy

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22. Summer Campfire Tissue Craft

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24. Sun Window Catcher Craft

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25. Easy Paper Plate Sunflower Craft

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27. Summer Folding Fan Craft

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28. Turtle Paper Bowl Craft

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30. Easy One Sheet Kite Craft

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1.Shark Paper Plate Craft

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2.Summer Handprint Crab Craft

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4. Summer Beach Sand Fingerpainting Craft

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5. Summer Jellyfish Paper Bowl Craft

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6. Plastic Bottle Fish Lantern Craft

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8. Handprint and Footprint Lobster Craft

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18. Easy Paper Plate Fish Craft


19. Easy Rainbow Fish CD Craft

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20. Cartesian Diver Toy Craft

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