
Seasons: Summer Art Ideas
Summer art and craft ideas


Spring flower hand print picture
These hand print paintings look lovely on display. We added a little glitter to the paint to give that extra sparkle.
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Spring and summer nature collages
Use leaves, petals, twigs, grass, what ever you can find, to make a beautiful nature collage. Dandelion seeds give a lovely effect when glued onto black paper. When we did …
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Make a kite- easy craft idea for children
Very easy to make. What you need: Brightly coloured thick paper or thin card tissue paper wool bits to stick on glue Preparation: cut out kite shapes cut stripes of …
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Paper Bunting Collage
We made this on the last session of the year and used them to decorate the hall. What you need: sugar paper collage materials stapler and staples glue string or …
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Strawberry pictures – celebrate Wimbledon!
These were really popular. I was thinking about cutting out a strawberry shape that the children could just colour, but actually they enjoyed painting the shape themselves. Even very young …
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Sandcastle pictures
This was very popular, but you will need a good vacuum cleaner to hoover up that sand! What you need: play sand thick paper or thin card in a summery …
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Paper plate sunflower- beautiful summer collage idea
A lovely way to brighten a display, but takes a little time to prepare. What you need: paper plates orange, yellow, green and brown or black paper glue sellotape art …
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Sun handprint
This was very popular- and very messy! What you need paper plates (or circles of card) large paper- I used A3 yellow and orange paint paint brushes long sleeved aprons …
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