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Buy Now: $4.99So, are you ready for summer? If so, you can join us to experience it. We brought a lot of activities, crafts, and worksheets for the summer. So, we added an activity made just for the summer to this blog page. We brought a lot of summer activities, crafts, and worksheets. So, we added an activity made just for the summer to this blog page. Then come experience a brand new summer Craft. This activity not only allows children to experience summer, but also provides many benefits, such as having fun, learning, and developing skills.
So, summer activities are suitable for children of any age. They are very easy and simple. Moreover, this activity is an indoor activity that can be done at school or at home. Children have the opportunity to have fun with this activity using very few materials. In particular, we’ll be providing you with the templates and instructions needed to make this summer craft for free. So you can get all of this below.
What’s This Craft About?
In this summer craft, kids only have to draw, color, cut, and paste. So it will be a more fun and engaging activity for kids. Because kids love drawing and coloring more than others. In this summer craft, the templates we provide have pictures of girls and boys wearing sunglasses. Here, the kids have to draw a picture of a beautiful environment they saw through those sunglasses. For example, children can draw a place they have seen, a beach, a park, a classroom, the sky, etc. Then they can color it all in. So it will be a very simple and easy activity.
And we have the opportunity to provide many more benefits to our children through this summer craft. Let’s see what they are.
What benefits can children get from this summer craft?
Summer Experience:
We created this activity to coincide with summer. So this is a great opportunity for children to experience and learn during the summer. You can use this craft to teach your children more about this season. For example, teach children about the importance of wearing sunglasses to protect themselves from the sun’s rays in the summer, the changes that occur in the environment during the summer, and the fun games they can play during the summer. Additionally, while doing this craft activity, you can let the children draw an event they see in their environment during the summer. It will connect them more to summer.
Skill Development:
This summer craft activity will help children develop the following skills.
- Creativity: Crafts encourage children’s creative skills and encourage them to create new things. Also, activities like color matching and drawing blend with children’s creativity.
- Fine Motor Skills: Throughout this summer craft, children will have to do fine motor activities like coloring and drawing. Such activities improve the functioning of the muscles in the child’s hands. Thus, it improves the fine motor skills of children.
- Hand-eye coordination: When performing movements such as coloring and drawing, not only the hands of the children but also their eyes need to be coordinated with each other. Therefore, through such craft creations, the eye-hand coordination process also improves in the children
- Communication Skills: In this activity, children should also listen to the instructions given. By listening carefully, they can follow the instructions given correctly. Also, after drawing, give children the opportunity to describe their drawing. This can further improve their communication skills.
- Decision Making: Here, children must decide for themselves what kind of picture they will draw. They must also decide for themselves what colors to use when coloring. Therefore, this craft helps improve children’s decision-making skills more often.
- Fun and engaging: This activity is full of activities that kids love. So it is something that kids can do for fun. Also, kids draw the happiest moments they have experienced. So this summer craft will be fun for kids.
What you need for this summer craft:
To do this summer craft, you’ll need just a few simple supplies:
- The free printable templates (8 pages — available below!)
- Crayons, markers, or colored pencils
- Colored paper (for the hair strips)
- Scissors (child-safe)
- Glue stick or white glue
Optional: You can also add glitter, stickers, or foam shapes to make it even more fun!
How to Do the Craft – Step by Step:
Follow these simple steps to complete the craft:
Step 1: Print the Templates
First, download the PDF file that we have provided for you below. Then you can print the templates in it. The templates we have provided include 08 outline images of girls and boys wearing large sunglasses. Therefore, please keep the following points in mind when printing these pages.
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01. Use white printer paper to print these templates.
02. You will receive all these templates in A4 size.
03. You can choose and print the appropriate template from these templates according to your child’s gender. For example, give boys coloring pages for boys and girls coloring pages for girls.
Step 2: Draw a Summer Scene in Sunglasses
Now distribute the printed templates among the children. Then, direct the children to draw a summer day experience on the large sunglasses. So, provide the children with the necessary pencils, markers, colored pencils, or crayons. Then, let them recall a recent summer day experience. So, children can draw anything they like, such as a beach, the sky, a park, a garden, flying a kite, playing, etc.
Step 3: Color all the images in the template
Once the drawing is finished, children can color it. Also, don’t forget to color the image on the template completely. So, when coloring, let children color it with the colors they like.
Step 4: Cut Strips of Paper for Hair
Next, we will add hair to this figure. For this, use strips of paper that are 4′ or 5′ long and 1′ wide. It is best to use colorful construction paper for this. So, cut 15-20 strips of paper in several colors in this way.
Step 5: Glue the Hair
Now, take these paper strips one by one and stick them on the head of the child’s figure. In this way, you should stick two or three rows of strips on the head. It is shown to you in the image below.
Step 6: Curl the Hair
Now roll the glued paper strips a little from the ends. This will look like short, rolled, and curly hair.
Step 7: Display the summer craft
Display your creations in class or at home. They will also make a wonderful keepsake.
Craft Tips & Ideas
- Laminate the finished page to turn it into a keepsake!
- Use rainbow paper strips to make rainbow hair!
- Add cotton balls to the top for a cloud effect in the drawing.
- Turn the finished craft into a summer bulletin board for your classroom.
- Use scrapbook paper for extra texture and patterns in the hair.
