Easy Watermelon Paper Fan Craft For Kids

Summers can be hot no matter where you live, but this adorable watermelon fan craft will keep you cool. The sweet fruit makes the cutest paper fan we’ve ever seen! With just a few supplies you probably already own, you can make this easy craft in no time. 

Materials:

• Colored craft papers

• Craft glue

• Pencil

• Sharpie

• Popsicle sticks

• Scissors

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Wiggly Octopus Friends

This toilet paper roll octopus craft is fun and easy to make. It’s great for younger kids and older kids. Learn about the octopus, practice fine motor skills, and make a fun octopus craft!

Materials:

• Toilet Rolls

• Yarn

• Paper Eyes or Plastic Googly Eyes

• Glue

• Chalk

• Paint (optional)

Instructions

• Start by making four slits in one end of the toilet roll, as shown.

• Fold the pieces in on each other and glue into position.

• Punch holes all around the base of the other end.

• Paint the toilet tubes with nice bright fun colors and leave aside to dry. When dry, decorate with some white chalk and your googly eyes.

• Finally loop some lengths of wool into the holes all around the base for the wibbly wobbly tentacles.

How to Make the Paper Plate Tree

What you need:

• Printable template (optional)

• Pencil

• Scissors

• Glue

• Paper plate

• Color paper (brown, pink, and green)

• Blue acrylic paint

• Paintbrush

Step by Step Tutorial: 

• Cut out the inside of the paper plate.

• Paint the outside of the paper plate’s edge blue.

• Draw a tree the size of the one you can glue to the rim of the plate on brown paper (You can be as creative as you’d like with this tree) and cut out the tree shape.

• Draw small flowers on pink paper ( Again, you can be as creative with the flowers as possible.)

• Draw leaves on green paper and cut out the leaves.

• Glue the tree to the back side of the paper plate and trim the excess.

• Start gluing the flowers and onto the tree.

Simple Origami Paper Boats

Step by Step Tutorial: 

• Start with a 6.5″ x 10″ piece of freezer paper.  Note: Any paper will work for this but the waxed quality of freezer paper makes it especially seaworthy.

• With the shiny side up fold it in half lengthwise (like a hot dog) and then unfold.

• Fold each long edge up until it is in line with  the center crease.

• Take the bottom right corner  and fold up  to meet the center crease.  Repeat with remaining three corners.

• Fold the outside corner into the center crease again.  Repeat on the other three sides to create sharp points at each end of your rectangle.

• Gently turn your project inside out.

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How to Make a Paper Plate Ice Cream Craft

What you need:

• Paper plates

• Brown card stock

• Pink, mint and black paint

• Red pom pom balls

• Sprinkles

• Black markers

• Scissors

• Glue

• Brushes

Instructions

• Draw an ice cream scoop onto your paper plates with a rounded circle top, a scalloped bottom with the sides slightly bigger than the top circle and cut out with scissors.

• Paint one scoop pink and one mint green and let dry.

• Cut out two triangle shapes from your brown paper with the top being about 4-5″ wide.

• Draw a criss cross pattern onto your brown triangle cones with your black marker. Glue your ice cream scoops onto the top of your cones.

• Use a small paint brush to paint on small black dots onto your mint green scoop to look like chocolate chips.

• Apply glue onto the pink scoop and top with sprinkles (do not eat).

• Then glue one red pom-pom ball onto the top of each ice cream scoop and let your cones dry.

Paper Plate Turtle Craft

Materials: 

• Paper plates

• Scissors

• Markers

• Green paper

• Googly eyes

• Glue

Instructions: 

• Making the shell

• Decorate the turtle shell with marker, no need to stick to one color only here.

• Cut out a head, four legs and a tail with scissors and green construction paper. Glue them onto the underside of the shell.

• Add googly eyes to the head.

Note: To make the large parent turtle, use a regular, full size paper plate. To make a smaller turtle, cut the center out of a regular size paper plate. Use the center, smaller circle for your child turtle.

Paper Plate Bird Craft

Supplies for Bird Craft:

• Paper plates

• Feathers

• Markers or paints

• Scissors

• Glue

• Googly eyes

• Glitter glue pens

• Orange paper

Instructions: 

• To make a large bird, fold a paper plate in half and crease it down the middle. To make a small bird, cut the center out of a paper plate, discard the edge and fold the smaller circle in half.

• Decorate half of the plate with markers. Add feathers on the wing and tail area with glue. Affix an eye.

• Cut out a small triangle beak with scissors and orange paper. Attach with glue.

• Use your glitter glue pens do decorate other parts of the bird. Let dry flat.

• When completely dry, fold in half and enjoy your birds.

How to make a Train craft

Supplies needed: 

• 6 Toilet Paper Roll Tubes, 2-3 Paper Towel Rolls or 6 Craft Rolls 

• 1 Skinny Cardboard Tube (May be used the center of a roll of foil)

• 20 Lids (milk containers, Vitamin waters, Gatorade)

• Craft Paint

• Yarn

• Hole Punch or Something to Make a Hole in the Cardboard Tube

• Hot Glue Gun

• Scissors

Directions to make a train craft: 

• Paint your cardboard tubes various bright colors. Cut C-shapes out of one of the tubes to create both the top of the little engine at the front of the train and caboose at the end of the train. 

• Also cut a C-shape out of the skinny cardboard tube and paint it the same color as the engine. The C-Shape tubes will arch nicely around the toilet paper roll.

• Once dry, hot glue the cardboard roll tops of the steam engines and caboose in place.

Tip: The box cars, freight car, passenger car and other various train cars on our train were all made from just a painted cardboard tube, but you could add details with card stock or additional recycled materials you have on hand.

• Also, hot glue four plastic lids on each cardboard tube as the wheels of your easy train craft.

• Punch small holes into the four “corners” of each carboard tube. These are your attachment points for the yarn.

• Cut the yarn to length.

• Weave the thread through one tube and another tube to attach two tubes together.

• Tie a knot.

• Continue stringing the train cars all together until all of the cars of the train are connected starting with the train engine at the front of the train and the caboose at the end of the train.

How to do blow painting with straws

Materials:

• Straws

• Liquid watercolors or food coloring

• Small cups

• Paper

• Tray

Instructions:

• Mix liquid watercolors in individual cups with water.

• Place a piece of paper on a tray.

• Place the straw in a one of the liquid watercolor cups. Now place your fingertip over the top of the straw and lift up without removing your finger.

• Place the straw over your paper and let go. The paint will drop onto the paper. 

• Place the straw near the drop of paint and blow to move the paint around.

• Repeat with more colors.