Summer is a craft season for young and old. This summer, collect some seashells from the beach and make some fun and colorful crafts with them. What can you make with seashells for children? Get inspired by these exciting DIY ideas!
Make shell peacocks with play dough with children
A shell peacock is a cute and easy craft to make at home with your little ones. The children will be fascinated by being able to make a shell peacock themselves.
Materials needed for the shell peacock:
- Blue, dark blue, orange, white and black play dough
- mussels
- Blue, yellow and green color
- Paint brush
How to make shell peacocks:
- First, paint the shell with a layer of white paint and allow the paint to dry completely. Only then can you paint the feathers.
- Roll out the blue play dough into an evenly smooth ball.
- Then roll out the white playdough and press a pen lid into the playdough to form two small flat circles.
- You need the black play dough for the black pupils. Flatten them and lightly press the black circles onto the white circles.
- For the eye you need a small ball of white clay that you have to press onto the black circle.
- Roll the orange clay into a smooth ball and shape the beak.
- Use the pre-made pieces of modeling clay to form the peacock's head.
- Now make the body out of the blue clay. First make a ball and then flatten it slightly to form a cylinder.
- Use your index finger to make a small indentation in the body for the head. Add three small balls of playdough for the comb.
- Finally stick the shell painted with feathers on the back part of the body and your shell craft is finished.
Crafts with shells for children: shell people
These shell people are wholeeasy to craft, look cute and are really fun to play with. Especially suitable for girls because girls love dolls and fashionable clothes. Different designs are easy to make, with different colors and shapes.
You need:
- mussels
- Lolly Sticks
- String for hair
- Washi-Band
- Glitter
- Pin
- Glossy button stickers
- Glue gun/strong glue
DIY instructions:
- Stick washi tape on the sticks to create the clothes, legs and feet, and then use a pen to draw on eyes and a mouth.
- Make the hair out of string and glue it on with the glue gun. You can make the buttons out of stickers.
- Paint the shells any colors you like and glue them to the dolls' bodies like skirts. You can have so much fun with itChildren do crafts in the summer.
Craft ideas with shells: turtle
Let's make this fun shell turtle! The children willbe excited about it.
What you need:
- mussels
- green craft paper
- Goggle-eyed
- Glue
- green color
- Scissors
- Paint brush
Instructions for crafting:
- Place the shell on the green cardboard and draw a head from the top, two arms from the top sides, two legs from the bottom and a tail from the back.
- Then connect the head, arms, legs and tail.
- Cut out the turtle body and set it aside.
- Paint the top of each shell with the brush and green paint and let it dry.
- Glue the green turtle shell onto the turtle body.
- Then glue two googly eyes onto the turtle head.
- Cut out several small trapezoids and hexagons and glue them to the top of the turtle shell. So your craft with shell is finished.
Make a shell mosaic as a garden decoration
This is a great idea for an elegant and easy summer craft with seashells.You can do the craftsdisplay in the house or in the garden. A great summer decoration that everyone will definitely love!
What you need for this craft:
- an aluminum cake pan
- a large plastic bucket for mixing
- a 1 cup measure
- wooden stir sticks
- a collection of seashells
- some plaster
- a decoupage sealer (like Mod Podge)
Instructions for making your own shell mosaic:
Plaster of Paris is usually available at any craft or hardware store. Obtain the required quantity. Sort the shells by color and size so you can arrange them when the time comes.
How do you make the mixture? Use a simple ratio:two parts cement powder to one part water. You can pour it into any container of your choice. Any shape you like. If you use cake pans, it's easy because once the plaster hardens, they peel off easily, leaving you with a perfect little round shape.
After pouring the mixture into the molds, children can take the shells and arrange them however they like until they have the design they want and the masterpiece is complete. Hopefully these DIY shell craft ideas were exciting for your little ones! Have fun in summer!
Make your own sand clay handprint with shell decoration
A craft idea with shells for toddlers. With this easy homemade sand play dough recipe, you can create handprints as lasting memories and sweet gifts.
How to Make Sand Playdough Handprints with Shells:
Recipe:
- 800 g Sand
- 180 g plain flour (all-purpose flour)
- 240g warm water
- 60g salt
Instructions:
- Mix the sand, flour and salt in a large bowl and slowly add the warm water, stirring with a large spoon. Once everything is combined, remove the dough from the bowl and begin kneading it on a lightly floured surface.
- Once you roll out the dough discs into circles, the children can make their handprints.
- Finally, they can decorate the edges with small shells from beach trips and party craft supplies to turn them into real beach treasures!
