Summer Beach Sand Fingerpainting Craft

Here's a cute summer beach scene craft made with sand paint. I really love the idea of mixing sand with paint. It gives it such a neat texture for fingerpainting. Some kids may not like it at first, but they usually come around after a little bit. Sand is usually colored yellow for a beach, but for this craft, I really wanted to make blue sand like the water washing up on the beach.

Materials:

• yellow construction paper
• sand
• blue paint
• shallow trays
• small crab cutout
• glue

Directions:

1. Put blue paint into shallow trays and mix sand with the paint.
2. Put a big glob of sandy paint on the yellow construction paper and let kids spread it around with their fingers. Leave a strip of yellow at the top for the beach. Allow to dry.
3. Cut a little crab or other sea creature and glue on your beach scene.



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Cartesian Diver Toy Craft

I remember having a Cartesian diver toy when I was a kid. Now, you can make your own. This Cartesian diver craft comes from a Japanese site and has photos and instructions in English and Japanese. One advantage of living in Japan is when you buy sushi at a supermarket, it always includes a little soy sauce packet. These are often little plastic tubes shaped like fish. They have a resealable screw on cap and are perfect for making the little Cartesian divers. You can also buy them at the store. They need a little weight at the bottom like a nut and need enough air inside to just barely float to the surface. Put them in a sealed plastic bottle full of water. When you squeeze the bottle, they sink. You can also get fancy with some divers with little hooks and try to snag weights on the bottom like a game. Visit this site today for the full tutorial, have fun.

Cartesian diver

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Plastic Bottle Fish Lantern Craft

This is a really cool looking recycled plastic bottle fish lantern craft I found on a Japanese blog. They used a 2 liter plastic drink bottle. Unfortunately, there is no description of how the craft was made. It looks as if they glued green tissue paper strips all over the bottle. The fins and mouth appear to be other pieces of plastic likewise covered in tissue paper and glued on. The eyes might be painted bottle caps. It's a great idea. You could put a string of Christmas lights inside to make a lantern. It makes you think what other things you could make with the same idea. Follow the link below to see some other pictures including a blue fish. Have fun.

Wagama My Life

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Summer Jellyfish Bottle Craft

This summer jellyfish in a bottle craft is just about the coolest thing I've ever seen! Use a clear plastic bag, a bottle, and a little ingenuity to create what looks like a real jellyfish swimming in this little bottle. Follow the link for a full tutorial with pictures.

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Summer Aquarium Fish Craft

Here's a cool Summer aquarium fish craft. You can watch your paper fish swim in their little aquarium world.

Materials:

• sheet of blue and white construction paper
• other various colors of construction paper
• cardboard
• plastic wrap
• scissors
• glue
• crayons
• hole punch
• blue thread

Directions:

1. Apply glue to the border of a sheet of blue construction paper and cover with a sheet of plastic wrap. Cut off the excess.
2. Cut a border frame for your blue sheet from cardboard and a matching frame from white construction paper.
3. Glue the cardboard frame on your blue paper.
4. Cut colorful fish from geometric shapes and punch a hole in each. Tie to a short length of blue thread.
5. Cut out green paper water plants.
6. Tape the threaded fish to the top of the frame and glue the plants to the bottom.
7. Glue the white paper frame on top of the cardboard frame.
8. Decorate the white frame with crayons.
9. Stand your aquarium up and see the fish floating.

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Summer Jellyfish Plastic Plate Craft

Here's a summer jellyfish craft idea from Japan. Use green plastic plate or paint a paper plate green.

Materials:

• green plastic plate/ painted paper plate
• scissors and craft scissors
• green crepe streamers
• light green construction paper
• markers/crayons
• hole punch
• string
• glue

Directions:

1. Cut your green plate in half using zigzag craft scissors.
2. Cut a half circle to fit on the bottom of the plate. Draw a jellyfish face with eyes and spots.
3. Glue the face on the bottom of the half plate.
4. Cut long crepe streamers of equal length and glue on the opposite side of the plate for tentacles.
5. Punch a hole in the top and tie a string to hang up.

Thanks: Baby Scrapbooks

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Summer Paper Clay Fish Craft

This is a cute summer fish craft from paper clay. Use interesting objects to make impressions in the clay.

Materials:

• paper clay
• paints
• interesting objects(shells, bottle caps, small toys, etc.)
• ribbon

Directions:

1. Mold your paper clay into a fish shape.
2. Press all kinds of objects into the clay to make impressions. If you press an object all the way through, remove from the hole and put on top. Press a hole in the top
3. Paint your fish. Allow to dry.
4. Tie a ribbon and hang up.

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Summer Ziploc Fish Craft

This is a great summer craft idea. Use Ziploc sandwich bags to make Ziploc fish.

Materials:

Ziploc bag
colorful yarn or tissue paper
string
marker
google eyes
glue
tape


Directions:

Beforehand fold and tape the bottom corners securely, so the bottom of the bag looks like an arrow. This will become the head and mouth of the fish.
Fill your bags with colorful paper or tissue paper and seal shut.
Pinch and tie the bag near the opening with a string. The Ziploc end becomes the tail.
Draw a face with a marker and add a google eye.

Source: Kansai Kids

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