Next, cut a piece of yellow tissue paper into a 12 x 12-inch square. Spread glue evenly onto the paper plate and press the sheet of tissue paper onto the plate. Smooth out the wrinkles and ensure the tissue paper is secured to the plate. If you are creating this craft with toddlers, you might find precutting the items will reduce the time of this activity. More Easy Summer Crafts and Activities!

Simple, yet effective; making sunflowers from everyday kitchen staples will be a sure way to create a fun Summer craft with your children. This requires minimal prep time and just some pasta shapes, pipe cleaners, and paint. For older learners, learning about brush strokes, tone, and famous artists is a must-do for any art curriculum. This YouTube video will explore how to draw Van Gogh’s famous ‘Sunflowers’ piece. These can then be decorated in a range of mixed media.

Now let’s bring this sunflower to life! Add googly eyes, cut about 3 inches of a green pipe cleaner, and affix it with glue for a cute smile. Allow drying for a few minutes to make sure the smile is secure. Eye-catching and easy to make, these beautiful tissue paper sunflowers are the perfect rainy day activity. There’s a template to use or have your children draw one. Simply scrunch up bits of tissue paper and glue them down into a sunflower shape. The finished pieces can be mounted onto a card as a gift or simply pinned up for display.

A great practical, hands-on activity. Your children can grow a sunflower using this straightforward guide. It also includes information on how to care for your sunflower too. Why not encourage your children to measure the growth of their sunflower each day and draw a small sketch to understand the life cycle too? This a great gift idea and perfect if you have a little more time on your hands. These salt dough creations are molded into sunflower shapes, baked, and painted to create an eye-catching candle holder for tea lights. Salt dough is a simple recipe using salt, flour, and water, mixed together to form a firm dough.Making these paper plate sunflowers are a fun fine motor activity for preschool and kindergarten children that provides painting, cutting and gluing practice. Pinching and grasping the sunflower seeds also helps develop fine motor skills. Take the opportunity to teach your kids the importance of minimizing waste. Teach them about recycling simple supplies like cardboard, paper, or plastic into something new and fun. Sunflowers have the be the happiest flower out there. Every time I see one it makes me smile, maybe because they’re so big, bold, and bright.