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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Straw Cartesian Diver Toy Craft

Here is an excellent instructional video from sciencetoymaker.com on making a simple and inexpensive Cartesian diver experiment from a straw and some paper clips. The video is not only clear and step by step, but also explains the science behind it as well as trouble shooting and how to handle a big class project. This is a great science craft project or summer school activity. There are other variations. I saw where you can color and cut out a sea creature from a plastic file and tape to the straws. The key to the diver is that it needs to be weighted and just barely float. I also saw diver from a plastic pipette. Put a little plastic skirt on it and make a squidy diver. There are also divers that spin.

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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 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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Pop Pop "Ponyo" Boat Craft

I first saw the idea for this toy boat in the Japanese animated movie, "Ponyo".  I found that actually this "Pop pop" or "Putt Putt" boat toy dates back about one hundred years. The picture above most clearly illustrates the concept for the boat. The candle heats the water in the tube. It turns to stream and gushes out both ends, which creates a vacuum, that quickly sucks water back through both ends and the cycle repeats. The one in the movie and most toy versions use a flattened diaphragm boiler. Which creates more of a putt putt sound and is a little stronger. But the home made coil version works well, too.

Take some thin copper or aluminum tubing which usually comes in 12 inch lengths. Wrap around a dowel or battery and make 2 or 3 coils. 3/32 inch or 1/8 inch size tubing are recommended. Attach the motor to your boat with both ends sticking in the water. Use a tea lite candle as a power source. The boat's hull can be made from almost anything that floats; balsa wood, Styrofoam, a tin can or an old plastic dish. I've included pictures of various kinds. There's also a great website all about pop pop boats with history, physics, and tutorials. Check it out and have fun.

Pop Pop Pages

 

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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 Jellyfish Paper Bowl Craft

This summer jellyfish craft is so cute and original. You just need a paper bowl, some ribbon, and a few other materials. Fun for kids and great for summer camps. Go here for more details:

The Moody Fashionista

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