10 easy arts and crafts activities for kids to do this summer

There will come a time during summer where the novelty of going out wears off, and you want some home days.

However, home days mean entertaining the kids, and finding ways to do this isn’t always easy.

Below are 10 easy arts and crafts activities for kids that you may like to add to your home day to do list, with many even being suitable for toddlers.

Rainbow Sponge Painting

This Rainbow Sponge Painting activity by The Best Ideas for Kids, is perfect for toddlers.

It’s fun and colourful, and best of all you may even have the materials you’ll need at home, which are:

• A sponge
• Paint
• Paper

Toilet Paper Roll Peacock

This Toilet Paper Roll Peacock by Easy Peasy and Fun, is a really nice activity that you can do with your kids.

If you have younger kids, you can draw and cut out the parts of the peacock yourself, and get your kids to glue them together and decorate them.

Older children may like to do the entire thing themselves, and really get creative in the process.

For this activity you’ll need:

• Toilet paper roll
• Coloured paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Markers

Paper Plate Ice Cream Cones

These Paper Plate Ice Cream Cones also by Easy Peasy and Fun, are super adorable, and allow your kids to get creative with colour and decorations.

Materials you’ll need are:

• Paper plates
• Brown paper
• Paint
• Paint brushes
• Pom poms
• Sprinkles
• Black marker
• Scissors
• Glue

Rainbow Wand

A Rainbow Wand is one of my favourite easy arts and crafts activities for kids, because it can be used in imaginative play once made.

This Rainbow Wand by Good to Know requires:

• Glitter
• Paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Ribbons
• Paper straw or dowel stick
• Pegs

You can put any shape that you like on the top of the rainbow, so instead of a star you could do a cloud, or your kid’s favourite character or superhero.

Plastic Bottle Pen Pots

These Plastic Bottle Pen Pots, also by Good to Know, are cute and practical, because they can hold pens, markers, and other stationery.

For this arts and crafts activity you’ll need:

• A plastic bottle
• Scissors
• Paint
• Paint brush
• Glue
• Markers

Potato Stamped Pandas

There are many easy arts and crafts activities for kids that you can do with vegetables, and one of these include Potato Stamped Pandas, by I Heart Arts n Crafts.

All you need for these pandas are:

• A potato
• Black and white paint
• Coloured paper

Pebble Pets

Pebble Pets are perfect because the main thing you need to make them is a pebble or a rock, which you can find in your backyard, or during a walk or day out.

These Pebble Pets by DIY Thought require:

• Pebbles / rocks
• Paint
• Paint brush

Pasta Necklace

What I love about this Pasta Necklace by Made to be a Momma, is the addition of wooden beads, which gives the necklace a more sophisticated look when we’re asked to wear it out of the house.

The materials you’ll need for this activity are:

• Dried pasta
• Paint
• Paint brush
• Wooden beads (optional)
• Plastic bag
• String

Paper Plate Pizza

This Paper Plate Pizza by She Saved, gives kids a great chance to practice their cutting skills.

For this activity you’ll need:

• Paper plates
• Red paint
• Paint brush
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Coloured paper
• Glue

Popsicle Stick Kitty

This Popsicle Stick Kitty by Crafty Morning, is cute and really easy to make.

All you need are:

• 4 popsicle sticks
• Googly eyes
• Markers
• Scissors
• Glue

I hope you’ve found some easy arts and crafts activities for kids from this list that you’d like to try this summer.

Do you have a favourite activity that you do on home days?