Children love colorful crafts and they have so much energy when it comes to having fun and playing. There are numerous craft ideas that are fun for little ones in the summer. You can craft with paper strips and make beautiful decorations or cute gifts for your loved ones.
Here are some fun summer craft ideas to keep your kids busy. They are easy to make and you only need a few materials. Try one of these paper crafts!
Make colorful butterflies out of paper
Children love fun and colorful crafts. These colorful paper strip butterflies are a great way to make beautiful decorations for your home and bring joy to the children
Materials required:
- Craft paper – multiple colors
- Little goggle eyes
- Black marker
- Scissors
- Glue stick/glue
Instructions for crafting:
- Cutfor this craftFirst, make long strips of paper about 1.5 cm wide. Also cut 1 thicker strip, about 3cm wide.
- Place 4 strips of paper together in the middle and glue them together. Bring the ends of the 4 strips to the center and glue them on top of each other.
- Then fold a 3cm strip in half. Apply glue stick to both sides and place the 4 strips on the top half, closer to the fold. Bring the other half up and glue it together.
- Now curl the top of the thicker strip and secure it with glue.
- Next, glue on the goggle eyes. For the antennae, use a thin piece of paper folded into a V shape.
- If you wish, you can use the black marker to draw decorations on the butterfly's body.
Make rainbows with strips of paper
These paper rainbows are a fun way to keep the kids busy during the summer.
This is what you need for this rainbow craft:
- Craft paper (rainbow colors)
- Scissors
- Lineal
- Booklets
- cotton balls
DIY instructions:
- Cut a strip from each piece of construction paper that should be 3 cm by 23 cm. Cut each color so that it is about 3cm shorter than the previous color.
- Simply place the paper strips on top of each other in the order of the rainbow. Start by placing the ends of the two shortest strips together. Then, one at a time, string the ends of the next color together until all the ends are together. Fix the strips at both ends.
- To make the clouds, you need to fluff up a cotton ball. Pull it apart into a cloud shape and place one end of the rainbow in the center of the cotton ball. Pin it to the rainbow to secure it. Repeat the process for the cotton ball on the other side of the rainbow and the rainbow is complete!
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Colorful paper crafts for young children
Little children willthis colorful craftfind fascinating. All activities should be supervised by an adult. It's easy to make an acorn from strips of paper.
Materials for the paper acorn craft:
- Cardstock (various colors + white)
- Glue stick
- craft scissors
- Pencil
- Craft knife + matDIY instructions:
- First, draw a large acorn on the white cardboard with the pencil and cut it out with the craft knife.
- Now draw an acorn hat on the brown cardboard and cut it out with scissors. Glue the hat onto the cut out acorn.
- Next, cut different colors of cardboard into strips.
- Glue to the back of the cut out acorn. It's so easy to make this acorn out of strips of paper.
Easy paper strip pumpkins for kids
Fall is almost here and kids of all ages would love making this easy pumpkin craft using strips of paper.
For this craft you will need:
- orange and green cardboard
- Scissors
- simple hole punch
- 2 brass clasps
Instructions for crafting:
- Cut out your stencils to the desired size. You will need 9 rectangular strips, 2 tendrils and 1 stem. You can also use more strips of paper.
- Punch a hole at both ends of the paper strips with the single hole punch. Additionally, punch a hole at the end of each vine and the flat end of the pumpkin stem.
- Fold the pumpkin stem so that it sticks out of the pumpkin.
- Stack 9 strips of paper, color side down. Place 2 vines on the orange strips and then place the pumpkin stem on the vines. Insert a brass clip through each end and secure the clasps.
- Use a dowel or pencil to curl the pumpkin's tendrils.
- Then gently bend the stack of paper and separate each strip to form a ball. The kids will definitely have fun designing these pretty pumpkins with different colors!
Do-it-yourself paper strips hedgehog
You must make this cute paper craft with your little ones at home because they will definitely be happy to make such a cute hedgehog!
What you need:
- a white sheet of heavier paper (craft paper or similar)
- brown paper
- beige Paper
- black marker
- Scissors or paper cutter
- Optional: googly eye stickers
Follow these step-by-step instructions:
- Cut several strips of brown paper.
- Once you have enough paper strips, tape the ends of one paper strip together to form a loop. Repeat the process with all strips.
- Take the white background and start sticking the paper strips in the shape of a semicircle.
- Then cut out a round body from beige paper and glue it to the back of the body.
- Draw the facial features, a wide, nice smile, an oval nose and eyes. You can use googly eye stickers, they are pretty cool. Soyou can make crafts quickly and easilythis hedgehog made of paper strips.
