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Creative Summer Crafts Fun for Kids of All Ages

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Creative Summer Crafts Fun for Kids of All Ages

Hi friends! As you may know by now, Glued To My Crafts can be your GO-TO source when it comes to kid craft tutorials. We really strive to provide the best on the internet!

So today we are sharing a quick collection post and rounding up 25+ of our favorite summer themed kids craft tutorials on our website right now, that are perfect for the season we are currently in. All these of these arts and crafts projects are super easy for ANYONE to make today. Primarily KIDS!

Now without further ado, keep scrolling to check out the links and pictures listed below. From there, you are going to pick your favorites and click on the provided links to be taken to the full & original tutorials on our website. Several of which even include FREE printable templates to get you started FAST!

Remember – crafting with kids has so many benefits {like coordination, fine motor skills and bonding moments.} This summer kid crafts collection post is the perfect start to making today extra crafty and throughout the summer. These projects can be of course followed to a “T” but we really hope you take our ideas as a starting point and use them as inspiration!

Happy crafting, my dear friends! I’ll let you get to it! Kick cabin fever to the curb with our unique craft tutorials! Find everything you need BELOW! BTW – don’t forget to share pictures with us! You can ALWAYS tag us on Facebook or Instagram for easy sharing.

And oh, one more thing! Don’t forget to also check out our Camping Themed Crafts For Kids roundup post so crafty ideas that are perfect for summer camps! #gluedtomycrafts

A paper plate sand castle scene features a sandy beach with glitter, a turtle, starfish, and crab beneath a brown paper sandcastle with three towers. Set on blue and teal backgrounds. Text reads Paper Plate Sand Castle.

Paper Sand Castle

Two handmade mermaid paper bag puppets with yarn hair, googly eyes, shell bras, painted tails, and glitter details shine on a star-patterned background. Text reads MERMAIDS PUPPETS—perfect for your next mermaid paper party bags craft!.

Paper Bag Mermaids

A paper plate oyster craft with a white ball pearl inside sits beside a handmade mermaid doll on a blue surface. The text reads, paper plate oyster.

Paper Plate Oyster

A yellow stained glass jellyfish suncatcher with black spots and blue paper streamers for tentacles hangs outdoors, framed by trees and a wooden deck. Text reads “GluedToMyCraftsBlog.com” and “STAINED GLASS JELLYFISH.”.

Jellyfish Suncatcher

A blue paper peacock with a yellow beak is glued to black paper. Colorful chalk lines form its tail feathers, creating a vibrant chalk peacock craft. Three pastel chalk sticks are on the side. Text reads “Chalk Art Peacock” and “GluedToMyCraftsBlog.com.”.

Chalk Art Peacock

Five colorful felt pretend play popsicle crafts with pom-pom decorations and glitter details are arranged on a blue, star-patterned background. FELT POPSICLES is written in a pink box at the bottom right.

Pretend Play Felt Popsicles

A pink paper plate ice cream truck craft, decorated with black wheels, cute ice cream illustrations, and a large cone on top, sits against a teal background sprinkled with gold stars.

Paper Plate Ice Cream Truck

A fun ice cream kid craft featuring a paper plate ice cream cone with pink tissue, colorful sprinkles, and a red heart on a pink polka dot background. Text reads “Paper Plate Ice Cream.”.

Paper Plate Ice Cream Cones

Three colorful handprint fish puppets made from paper, each with a googly eye and red mouth, are attached to wooden sticks. The teal background with gold stars highlights the playful “Fish Puppets” text. Perfect for making your own handprint fish!.

Popsicle Stick Fish Puppets

A paper plate craft resembling a paint splat ice cream cone, with colorful splatters and a red cherry on top, sits next to pink and blue Tulip Slick paint bottles on a teal background sprinkled with star confetti.

Paint Splat Ice Cream Cones

A colorful paper rocket ship puppet on a popsicle stick, decorated with red curly ribbon, rests on a teal surface with gold stars. The text ROCKET PUPPET is at the bottom, and GluedToMyCraftsBlog.com is at the top.

Paper Rocket Puppet

Two paper plate shark car crafts with wheels, fins, and windows reveal stick figure drivers. Set against a blue, water-like background, the text reads Paper Plate Shark Cars.

Paper Plate Shark Cars

A paper unicorn craft for summer featuring sunglasses, a yellow horn, and purple mane is attached to a painted pink paper plate pool float, set on a blue background. Text reads: PAPER CRAFT POOL PARTY UNICORN.

Paper Pool Unicorn Friend

A child’s smiling photo appears inside a shark mouth picture frame craft with googly eyes and jagged teeth, set on a blue background. Green paper waves are at the bottom. Text reads, “Shark Mouth Craft FREE PRINTABLE INCLUDED!”.

Paper Shark Mouth

Three popsicle stick crafts of girls with colored hair are shown inside pink paper flamingo pool floaties, displayed on blue paper. This adorable popsicle stick pool float craft for kids is labeled "Popsicle Stick Pool Floatie" in the corner.

Popsicle Stick Pool Float Friends

Two paper plate mermaid house crafts decorated with green seaweed, blue shells, flower accents, and cartoon mermaids are set against a blue watercolor background. Text reads paper plate mermaid house.

Paper Plate Mermaid House

Five colorful popsicle stick food truck crafts, each decorated with a paper sign showing food items like pizza, burgers, or hot dogs, are displayed on a blue star-patterned background.

Popsicle Stick Taco Truck

Two triangular craft stick tents, painted and decorated with paper campfires, sit on a dark background beside star-patterned paper. Text reads POPSICLE STICK TENT.

Popsicle Stick Tents

Two cute popsicle stick smores crafts, made from popsicle sticks, brown and tan paper with smiling faces and pink cheeks, are displayed on patterned paper backgrounds. Text reads POPSICLE STICK SMORES.

Popsicle Stick Smores

A craft project of a popsicle stick ice cream gnome with a brown cone hat, white beard decorated with colorful sequins, red oval nose, and yellow popsicle stick frame, set against a pink polka dot background.

Popsicle Stick Ice Cream Gnomes

A colorful, handmade cupcake liner palm tree craft features green cupcake liners as leaves, brown paper coconuts, and a wooden popsicle stick trunk set against a vibrant painted background.

Cupcake Liner Palm Tree

A paper seashell fish is decorated with glitter and sequins, featuring a red heart for lips and a black circle for an eye, set against a teal background adorned with small star patterns.

Seashell Fish Paper Craft

A fun ice cream kid craft featuring a cupcake liner ice cream cone with colorful scoops, decorated with sequins and set atop a brown paper cone with drawn lines, all displayed on a white background.

Cupcake Liner Ice Cream

A cute paper plate frog craft made with green tissue paper, large white and brown eyes, a red tongue, and plastic flies, all set on a wooden surface. The text “PAPER PLATE FROG” appears at the bottom. Perfect for paper frog lovers!.

Paper Plate Frog

A popsicle stick mermaid tails craft made from green painted sticks and paper fins, decorated with gold squiggles, is displayed on a blue ocean-like background. The text on the image reads "popsicle stick MERMAID TAILS.

Popsicle Stick Mermaid Tails

A paper plate pineapple craft with green paper leaves on top and yellow tissue squares for the fruit, displayed on colorful sheets of paper. Text reads PAPR PLATE PINEAPPLE—a fun tissue paper pineapple project!.

Paper Plate Pineapple

A colorful children’s underwater craft features handprint coral reef designs with paper handprints as coral, foam sea creatures, wavy blue backgrounds, a bottle of glue, and the words “HANDPRINT CORAL” at the bottom.

Handprint Coral Reel Keepsake

A summer-themed craft featuring a torn paper popsicle decorated with colorful gems on a "HAPPY SUMMER!" sheet. Elmers glue, gems, and orange paper scraps are beside it. Text overlay reads, FREE PRINTABLE!!!.

Torn Paper Popsicle Craft Idea – Happy Summer Printable

A children’s craft featuring a torn paper orange with two googly eyes, made by gluing orange paper pieces onto a drawn outline. The text below reads, Squeeze the most out of summer! Glue is placed nearby.

Torn Paper Orange – Squeeze The Most Out of Summer

A craft display features two paper people in swimsuits on a shimmery, paint splat beach scene, surrounded by cutouts of a crab, flamingo, and starfish. Tubes of paint and beach-themed decorations complete this paper beach craft.

Paint Splat Beach Day Craft Idea

A popsicle stick camping mug with googly eyes, a smiling face, and a handle sits against a forest-patterned background. The blue mug features white paint splatters, a black strip at the top, and creative charm.

Popsicle Stick Camping Mug Craft Idea

A kids’ craft project features a potato masher stamped ice cream sundae on gray paper, with three scoops painted and topped with glitter and cotton balls, surrounded by colorful craft supplies.

Potato Masher Stamped Ice Cream Sundae

A torn paper campfire craft with red and orange flames, two craft sticks for logs, and “You warm my heart” text on a white background. Glue and a red marker complete this cozy torn paper campfire project.

Torn Paper Campfire – You Warm My Heart

Paper Plate Snow Cone Craft Idea For Summer

Paper Plate Snow Cone Craft Idea

Pool Noodle Stamped Pool Floatie – Summer Craft for Kids

Pool Noodle Stamped Floatie Craft Idea

Popsicle Stick & Paper Plate Camping Lantern Craft Idea For Kids To Make This Summer Season-3

Popsicle Stick Camping Lantern Craft Idea

A paint splat camping lantern craft with a wavy, colorful center and bold black outline sits on patterned paper, surrounded by bottles of orange, yellow, and red puffy paint. Text reads “Paint Splat Lantern.”.

Paint Splat Camping Lantern Craft Idea

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