Easy summer art activities for children

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Easy summer art activities for children

This section of NurtureStore’s seasonal children’s art activities has ideas for fun and easy summer art activities for children, including art projects about the sunshine, seaside, bees and butterflies plus crafts for Juneteenth, Pride, Summer Solstice and Fourth of July.

This article is part of our children’s art lessons and craft activities.

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Summer arts and crafts about:

– ready-made art curricula
– bees
– butterflies
– flowers
– Fourth of July / fireworks
– Juneteenth
– outdoor art
– Pride
– seaside
– shells
– summer camp
– Summer Solstice
– sunflowers
– sunshine

Ready-made art lessons, all in one place

The best and easiest way to teach great art lessons is to use our ready-made art curricula. Choose from:

Art Spark: This kit gives you everything you need to get started with art and develop a rich and creative art practice with your children. 30+ inspiring process art projects, famous art, world culture, practical tips, and endless possibilities! See more and get your copy here.

Exploring Great Artists: This book gives you everything you need to teach an exciting art program inspired by the great artists of the world. With profiles of each artist, materials lists, lesson plans, and creative, hands-on art projects for every featured artist you’ll easily be able to deliver engaging and educational art lessons. See more and get your copy here.

Diversify Your Art Curriculum: This art curriculum bundle of five ebooks gives you everything you need to teach 25 art projects inspired by contemporary artists of colour from four continents. See more and get your copy here.

Color Theory Art Lessons: This curriculum gives you all the resources you need to learn about the color wheel and color theory and enjoy hands-on, easy, creative art projects for every lesson. It includes art history, famous artist profiles, and wider cross-curricular lessons in science, math, language arts and world culture, plus bonus printables and posters. See more and get your copy here.

Easy summer art activities for children

Enjoy these art activities for children featuring the motifs of the season and the main summer festivals.

Bee art and crafts activities

Bubble wrap bee art
Combine an oil and water paint resist technique with some bubble wrap printing to make a fun bumble bee art project.

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Butterfly art and crafts activities

Butterfly mobile
An easy to make butterfly mobile.

Butterfly symmetry prints
Explore printmaking and symmetry with this classic butterfly craft.

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Flower art and crafts activities

Flower manadalas
Combine natural, sensory materials, art, math and a little meditation and make some pretty flower mandala designs.

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Fourth of July / fireworks art and crafts activities

Easy firework arts and crafts
How to make firework crafts that spin and explode, plus ideas for firework art lessons.

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Juneteenth art and crafts activities

Famous Black artists lessons
A range of art lessons for children inspired by Black artists including Clementine Hunter, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Augusta Savage, Esther Mahlangu, and the Gee’s Bend Quilters.

Juneteenth flag art project
Learn about the Juneteenth flag and create your own collage art version.

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Outdoor art art and crafts activities

Spray painting
Here’s a super fun outdoor art idea from the Just So Festival: using water pistols for spray painting!

Chalk paint
This homemade chalk paint recipe is ever so easy to make and gives a great sensory play material for kids art – indoors or out.

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Pride art and crafts activities

Pride flag art lesson
Use this Pride flag lesson with your children as part of your LGBTQ+ Pride month activities.

Handprint art lesson
Make this easy LGBTQ+ Pride craft to explore identity and celebrate who your children are.

Keith Haring art lesson
Use this Keith Haring art lesson with your children as a Pride art lesson, graffiti art lesson, pop art lesson, and to explore how art can be activism. It’s a quick and easy art lesson that only needs marker pens, making it accessible to everyone.

Colour-in bookmarks
Printable, colour-in bookmarks that celebrate love.

Handprint rainbow wreaths
Make a beautiful rainbow handprint wreath.

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Seaside art and crafts activities

Seaside crafts
Seaside crafts including foil fish and shells mobiles.

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Shell art and crafts activities

Shell mandalas
These shell mandalas are a great lesson in math and art.

Shell fairy houses
Where do fairies go on holiday? To stay in seashell cottages by the sea! Here’s a sweet little craft idea that turns into imaginary play and storytelling.

Shell mobile
Such a pretty seaside craft for kids, and a lovely memento of a beach holiday: here’s how to make a shell mobile.

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Summer camp art and crafts activities

Run your own art camp activities
All the resources you need to run a colourful and fun art camp at home or at school. The NurtureStore Art Camp Kit includes project lesson plans, materials lists, planner, invites, certificates, and stickers.

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Summer Solstice art and crafts activities

Sunshine sun catcher easy solstice craft – with sun template printable
Use this sun template printable to make a gorgeously easy sun craft to celebrate the solstice with children.

Sunshine mandala summer solstice coloring page printable
Colour, paint or doodle this sunshine mandala summer solstice printable and celebrate the turning of the year.

Sun weaving :: solstice crafts
Use ribbon and yarn to make a sunshine

Warm and cool colour theory art lesson for kids
Let’s explore warm and cool color theory and create a night and day art project with our children.

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Sunflower art and crafts activities

Scratch art sunflowers
This scratch art sunflower art project is an easy art technique for children to explore and the results look gorgeous.

Collage sunflowers inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe and Vincent Van Gogh
Learn about famous art inspired by sunflowers, including work by O’Keeffe, Matisse, and Klimt, and create your own sunflower art project.

Handprint sunflowers
This handprint sunflower craft is easy and so fun to make, and looks glorious!

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Sunshine art and crafts activities

Sunshine weaving
Here’s a very simple weaving project to make sunshines.

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More children’s art lessons and craft activities

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