Check out these fun summer crafts for preschoolers and kindergarten kids to make. Once you’re done here, be sure to review the rest of our summer activities for preschoolers.
You’ll find a variety of preschool summer crafts below. There are shells, pirates, nature, ocean animals, and more. You’re sure to find something fun to add to your summer lesson plans.
You can make adjustments to the summer craft ideas based on the ages and needs of your students, too. Or tweak them based on the topics you’re studying or the kids are interested in currently.
Since this is a collection of activities, you’ll fine multiple links below. The links are blue, underlined text, and each takes you to directions for the individual activities.
So take a look through all of the options, choose your favorites, and click through to the preschool summer craft ideas you’re most interested in.
What Can Kids Learn With Crafts?
While I am a big proponent of process art for kids, I also think crafts have their place in early childhood, too. Here are some things children practice with the summer crafts for preschoolers:
- Fine motor skills
- Following multi-step directions
- Color identification
- Scissor skills
- Counting
- Sequencing
- Vocabulary development
Those are just a few of the skills kids can practice along the way. Creativity is definitely involved, too. And I highly recommend allowing the children to be creative as they’re crafting. Let them add their own touches to the crafts, without making any adjustments for them.
Materials for Your Preschool Summer Crafts
As I mentioned above, each of the summer crafts for preschoolers have their own specific supply lists. But I thought I’d put together some suggestions for you ahead of time (I may get commissions for purchases made through links in this post):
- Washable tempera paint
- Construction paper
- Shells
- Cotton balls
- Cardboard tubes
- Coffee filters
- Googly eyes
- Paper plates
Do you have any favorite craft supplies you like to break out during the summer?
Summer Crafts for Preschoolers
Now, let’s jump into crafty summer fun! Remember to click on the links of your favorite ideas to read more about each one.
- Have the kids work on their fine motor skills while creating a paper plate octopus craft.
- Use colorful shells to create a seashell flower garden.
- Craft some egg carton ice cream cones for your ice cream shop dramatic play.
- Make a photo mermaid craft with your students, and then use them as props for an under-the-sea theme.
- DIY bubble wands are a must-try when we’re talking about summer crafts for preschoolers! Don’t forget to test them out with some bubble solution.
- Add this popsicle stick campfire craft to a summer camping theme.
- Add these coffee filter fireworks to your July 4th-themed summer crafts for preschoolers.
- Have the kids create a sweet keepsake with a handprint pirate craft.
- Encourage the use of bright colors when the children make a bubble wrap pineapple craft.
- Help your students make a toy surfboard craft for their small toys.
- Hang up a circles suncatcher to show off the summer sunshine.
- Shark binoculars are perfect during Shark Week!
- Create pirate finger puppets and use them for some summer storytelling.
- Talk about summer weather, and then make a paper rainbow craft to decorate the classroom.
- Explore nature with the children and work together to make a fairy house craft.
Now that you’ve seen all of them, which of the summer crafts for preschoolers are you going to try first? Be sure to save this post for future reference. If you have a Summer Preschool Activities Pinterest board, that’s a great place to start.
More Summer Activities for Kids
I have even more summer collections for you:
- 15+ Summer Sensory Bin Ideas
- 20+ Shark Activities
- 30+ Summer Literacy Activities for Preschoolers
- 35+ Summer Science Experiments
- 15+ Summer Messy Play Ideas
I think they are a great addition to the summer crafts for preschoolers you’ve read about here.
Summer Lesson Plans
Let my sister site, Preschool Teacher 101, save you a ton of planning time with fully-developed, done-for-you early childhood resources. We have lesson plans, dramatic play sets, math games, literacy activities, teacher guides, and more!
I think our summer lesson plans complement the summer crafts for preschoolers very well. Click on the image below to get your copy:
Here are a few more resources to check out, too:
We also have The Pack, a membership for preschool and kindergarten teachers. Members have access to our materials at a steep discount.
You can also find us on Teachers Pay Teachers.
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