--- title: 23 Summer Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas) description: 23 summer crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture and simple steps. 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Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 using paper, paint, and glue. [Kindergarten Prep Team](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/author/kindergarten-prep-team) Oct 17, 2026 --- In summer, the paint can dry outside, so the big messy ones are allowed. Here are 23 summer crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture, supplies, and steps. Paper plate watermelons, suns and sea creatures, a handprint campfire and a kite made from a lunch bag. These are long afternoon crafts for the porch. A three-year-old dots a paper plate jellyfish and tapes on more tentacles than it needs. A five-year-old weaves the paper sea turtle. The puffy paint ice cream cone gets touched before it is dry, every time. ## Start here: three Summer crafts that always work [![Paper plate jellyfish, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C136-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C136-2.webp)**Paper plate jellyfish***Dot markers and ribbon, a three does it*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/summer-crafts-for-preschoolers#c136)[![Paper plate sun, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C254-4.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C254-4.webp)**Paper plate sun***Yellow paint and paper strips, ten minutes*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/summer-crafts-for-preschoolers#c254)[![Paper plate watermelon, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C290-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C290-1.webp)**Paper plate watermelon***Two colors and black beans, the summer classic*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/summer-crafts-for-preschoolers#c290) All 23 Easy for 3 year olds No paint ## 23 summer crafts for preschoolers, with pictures [![Coffee filter butterfly, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C033-9.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C033-9.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C033-9.webp) ### 1. Coffee filter butterfly The child colours a coffee filter with markers, sprays it with water, then pinches it in a clothespin or pipe cleaner body. **You need:** 1 round coffee filter, pink, blue, purple and yellow washable marker, water spray bottle, 1 wooden clothespin, 2 small googly eyes, 1 black pipe cleaner piece, glue How to make it 1. Your child scribbles all over the filter with all 4 colors. 2. Spray it with water so the colors bleed together. Leave it to dry. 3. You gather the filter in the middle and pinch it in the clothespin so it spreads into two wings. 4. Glue 2 eyes near the top of the clothespin. Bend the pipe cleaner into a V and clip it in the top. [![Handprint fish, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C089-8.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C089-8.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C089-8.webp) ### 2. Handprint fish The child makes sideways handprints in bright colours and adds eyes, bubbles and seaweed to make fish. **You need:** 1 sheet of blue paper, 2 colours of paint, 2 googly eyes, black marker, green paper, glue How to make it 1. Paint your child's hand and press it sideways in the upper half of the blue paper. 2. Wash, then repeat in the other colour in the lower half. 3. Let the prints dry, then glue 1 googly eye on the palm end of each fish and draw a small smile. 4. You cut 2 wavy green strips. Glue them standing up from the bottom edge as seaweed. 5. Draw small circles above each fish as bubbles. [![Paper plate jellyfish, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C136-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C136-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C136-2.webp) ### 3. Paper plate jellyfish The child decorates half a paper plate with dot markers, adds eyes and tapes on yarn or ribbon tentacles. **You need:** 1 white paper plate, pink and purple dot markers, pink yarn, 2 large googly eyes, clear tape, glue How to make it 1. You cut the plate in half. Place one half with the curved edge at the top. 2. Your child stamps dots all over it with the dot markers. 3. Tape yarn pieces behind the straight bottom edge so they hang down as tentacles. 4. Glue the 2 large googly eyes in the middle. [![Paper plate ladybug, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C141-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C141-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C141-2.webp) ### 4. Paper plate ladybug The child paints a paper plate red, dots on black spots, and adds a black head, legs and googly eyes. **You need:** 1 white paper plate, red and black poster paint, black paper, 2 googly eyes, glue How to make it 1. Your child paints the plate red. Let it dry. 2. Paint one black line down the middle from top to bottom. 3. Dot black spots on each side of the line. Let it dry. 4. You cut a black half circle and glue it at the top edge as the head. Glue the 2 googly eyes on it. 5. Cut 6 black strips and glue 3 under the rim on each side as legs. [![Paper plate rainbow fish, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C091-4.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C091-4.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C091-4.webp) ### 5. Paper plate rainbow fish The child cuts a wedge mouth from a paper plate, reuses it as the tail and glues on overlapping tissue paper scales plus one foil scale. **You need:** 1 white paper plate, tissue paper squares in a few colours, 1 square of foil, 1 self-adhesive googly eye, glue How to make it 1. You cut one pie slice wedge from the side of the plate as an open mouth. Keep the wedge. 2. Glue the wedge on the opposite side by its point as the tail. 3. Your child glues tissue squares over the plate and tail, overlapping like scales. 4. Glue the foil square in the middle as a shiny scale and stick the googly eye above the mouth. [![Paper plate sun, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C254-4.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C254-4.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C254-4.webp) ### 6. Paper plate sun The child paints a paper plate yellow and glues paper strips or triangles around the rim as rays, then adds a face. **You need:** 1 small white paper plate, yellow poster paint, orange paper, black marker, glue stick How to make it 1. Your child paints the plate yellow. Let it dry. 2. You cut orange triangles. 3. Rub glue stick on the back of the plate rim and press the triangles on from underneath, with the point sticking out as a ray. 4. Your child draws 2 dot eyes and a curved smile in the middle. [Free · 30 questions · about 4 minutes **Is your child on track for kindergarten?** Answer 30 questions about what your child does today, and you get a report like this one: Every area at a glance: strong, on track, or worth a little time The one or two areas to focus on first Simple things to do at home for each area How many months you have until kindergarten starts Get my child's free report → ![Example kindergarten readiness report with a bar for each area: language, social-emotional, math, thinking, fine motor and literacy](https://kindy.kindergarten-prep.com/report-preview.png)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/kindergarten-readiness-assessment?utm_source=kp-blog&utm_medium=card&utm_campaign=crafts-summer-crafts-for-preschoolers&utm_content=mid) [![Paper plate watermelon, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C290-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C290-1.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C290-1.webp) ### 7. Paper plate watermelon The child paints the rim green and the middle red, then glues on black beans or punches paper seeds. **You need:** 1 paper plate, red paint, green paint, dried black beans, white glue How to make it 1. You cut the plate in half and use one half. 2. Your child paints the curved rim green as the rind and the flat middle red. Let it dry. 3. Glue black beans on the red part as seeds, pressing each one for a few seconds. [![Toilet paper roll bee, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C021-9.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C021-9.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C021-9.webp) ### 8. Toilet paper roll bee The child paints a cardboard tube yellow, adds black stripes, paper wings, eyes and pipe cleaner antennae. **You need:** 1 toilet paper roll, yellow and black paint, white paper, 2 googly eyes, 1 black pipe cleaner, black marker, glue How to make it 1. Your child paints the roll yellow. When dry, paint or glue 3 black stripes around the lower part. 2. You cut out 2 white wings. Glue them on the back so one wing sticks out on each side. 3. Glue 2 eyes near the top and draw a smile under them. 4. Cut the pipe cleaner into 2 short pieces and glue them inside the top rim as antennae. [![Paper plate lion, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C152-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C152-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C152-2.webp) ### 9. Paper plate lion The child paints a paper plate yellow and fringes, curls or glues paper strips around the rim for the mane. **You need:** 1 white paper plate, yellow poster paint, orange paper, 2 googly eyes, black marker, glue How to make it 1. Your child paints the plate yellow. Let it dry. 2. You cut short orange strips. Glue them all the way around the rim so they stick out past the edge as a mane. 3. Glue the 2 googly eyes in the middle of the plate. 4. Draw a triangle nose and a curved mouth below the eyes with the marker. [![Paper plate sea turtle, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C279-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C279-1.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C279-1.webp) ### 10. Paper plate sea turtle The child paints or tissue-covers a paper plate shell and glues on a paper head, flippers and tail. **You need:** 1 small paper plate, green paint, light green and yellow tissue paper, green construction paper, 2 googly eyes, glue How to make it 1. Your child paints the plate green. Let it dry. 2. Tear small tissue squares and glue them over the middle as the shell pattern. 3. Cut from green paper 1 head, 2 long flippers, 2 short flippers and 1 pointed tail. 4. Turn the plate over. Glue the head under the top rim, the long flippers under the upper sides, the short flippers lower down and the tail under the bottom rim. 5. Glue 2 googly eyes on the head. [![Bubble wrap jellyfish, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C133-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C133-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C133-2.webp) ### 11. Bubble wrap jellyfish The child paints bubble wrap, prints it onto paper as the bell, and adds painted or ribbon tentacles. **You need:** 1 sheet of light blue construction paper, purple poster paint, half circle of bubble wrap, pieces of ribbon, 2 googly eyes, glue How to make it 1. Brush purple paint over the bubble wrap half circle. 2. Your child presses it onto the upper half of the blue paper, flat edge at the bottom, and lifts it. Let it dry. 3. Glue ribbons along the flat bottom edge of the dome, hanging down. 4. Glue the 2 googly eyes in the middle of the printed dome. [![Coffee filter jellyfish, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C134-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C134-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C134-2.webp) ### 12. Coffee filter jellyfish The child colours and wets a coffee filter, then tapes ribbon or streamer tentacles underneath. **You need:** 1 round coffee filter, blue and purple washable markers, water spray bottle, strips of crepe paper streamer, 2 googly eyes, clear tape, glue How to make it 1. Your child scribbles all over the coffee filter with the markers. 2. Spray it with water so the colours bleed together. Let it dry. 3. Cut the filter in half, curved edge at the top. 4. Tape streamer strips behind the straight bottom edge so they hang down. 5. Glue the 2 googly eyes on the front. [![Hand and footprint lobster, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C153-4.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C153-4.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C153-4.webp) ### 13. Hand and footprint lobster The child makes a red footprint for the body and two red handprints for the claws, then adds eyes. **You need:** red poster paint, white paper, 2 small googly eyes, paintbrush How to make it 1. Brush red paint on the bottom of your child's foot. Press it in the middle of the paper with the toes at the top. Let it dry. 2. Paint your child's hand and press it as a claw at the lower left, with the palm touching the footprint heel and the fingers pointing out. 3. Print the other hand as the claw on the lower right. 4. Let it dry, then stick the 2 googly eyes on the heel, between the claws. [![Handprint campfire, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C037-8.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C037-8.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C037-8.webp) ### 14. Handprint campfire The child layers red, orange and yellow handprints as flames above brown paper logs. **You need:** white paper, red, orange and yellow paint, brown paper, glue How to make it 1. Paint your child's hand red and press it in the middle of the white paper, fingers pointing up. 2. Paint the hand orange and press it overlapping the first, to one side. 3. Paint it yellow and press it in front, between them. 4. You cut 2 brown strips and glue them in an X shape below the palms as logs. [![Paper pinwheel, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C188-5.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C188-5.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C188-5.webp) ### 15. Paper pinwheel The child decorates a paper square, the adult cuts the corners in and the child helps pin it to a stick so it spins. **You need:** 1 white paper square, crayons, 1 wooden craft stick, 1 brass paper fastener, red paper How to make it 1. Your child scribbles crayon on both sides of the square. 2. You cut from each corner toward the centre, stopping short of the middle. 3. Fold every second corner point in to the centre. 4. Push the fastener through the 4 points and the centre, then through the top of the stick, and open its legs flat on the back. Cut a small red circle and slip it over the fastener. [![Paper plate crab, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C059-3.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C059-3.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C059-3.webp) ### 16. Paper plate crab The child paints a paper plate red and glues on paper claws, legs and googly eyes; handprints can be the claws. **You need:** 1 small paper plate, red paint, red construction paper, 2 large googly eyes, glue How to make it 1. You cut the plate in half. 2. Your child paints the plate red. Let it dry. 3. You cut 2 claws with a V notch in the end, and 6 thin leg strips, all from red paper. 4. Glue a claw under the rim at each top corner. Glue 3 legs under each side. 5. Stick the 2 big eyes on the back. [![Paper plate shark, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C232-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C232-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C232-2.webp) ### 17. Paper plate shark The child paints a paper plate grey, cuts or glues a zigzag white mouth and adds a fin; folded in half it rocks or chomps. **You need:** 1 white paper plate, gray poster paint, white paper, gray paper, 1 googly eye, glue How to make it 1. You cut a triangle wedge out of one side of the plate as an open mouth. Keep the wedge. 2. Your child paints the plate and the wedge gray. Let them dry. 3. Glue the wedge on the other side as a tail. Cut a gray triangle and glue it on top as a fin. 4. Cut small white triangles and glue them along the mouth as teeth. 5. Glue the googly eye above the mouth. [![Paper weaving sea turtle, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C280-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C280-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C280-2.webp) ### 18. Paper weaving sea turtle The child weaves coloured paper strips over and under through slits in a turtle shell. **You need:** green paper, yellow paper strips, 2 googly eyes, glue How to make it 1. Cut a turtle from green paper in one piece: a big round shell, a head, 4 flippers and a tail. 2. Cut slits across the shell. 3. Your child weaves the first yellow strip sideways through the slits, over and under. 4. Weave the next strips one below the other, starting opposite to the one above. Glue the ends down. 5. Glue 2 googly eyes on the head. [![Paper plate sunflower, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C260-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C260-1.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C260-1.webp) ### 19. Paper plate sunflower The child paints a plate yellow, snips or adds petals and glues real seeds or black paper in the centre. **You need:** 1 small white paper plate, yellow poster paint, sunflower seeds, green paper, glue How to make it 1. Your child paints the plate yellow. Let it dry. 2. You snip short cuts all the way around the rim to make a fringe of petals. 3. Spread glue on the flat middle and press on the seeds until it is covered. 4. Cut a green strip and glue it under the bottom edge as the stem. 5. Cut a leaf and glue it on the stem. [![Puffy paint ice cream cone, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C055-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C055-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C055-2.webp) ### 20. Puffy paint ice cream cone The child mixes shaving cream with glue and a little paint and dollops the fluffy mix on top of a paper cone. **You need:** light blue cardstock, brown paper, shaving cream, white glue, pink paint, rainbow sprinkles How to make it 1. You cut a brown triangle and glue it point down on the light blue cardstock as the cone. 2. Mix shaving cream, white glue and pink paint into thick puffy paint. 3. Your child spoons and spreads a thick mound above the cone as a round scoop. 4. Drop sprinkles on the wet paint. Leave it flat to dry for a day. [![Toilet paper roll octopus, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C172-4.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C172-4.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C172-4.webp) ### 21. Toilet paper roll octopus The child paints a cardboard tube, the bottom half is snipped into eight strips that curl out as legs, and eyes are glued on. **You need:** 1 toilet paper roll, purple paint, 2 googly eyes, black marker How to make it 1. Your child paints the whole roll purple. Let it dry. 2. You snip the bottom half upward into 8 strips. 3. Your child bends each strip outward and curls the end up so the legs spread out. 4. Stick the 2 eyes onto the top half and draw a smile below. [![Fork painted fireworks, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C087-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C087-1.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C087-1.webp) ### 22. Fork painted fireworks The child stamps a fork dipped in bright paint outward from a centre on black paper to make bursting fireworks. **You need:** 1 sheet of black paper, 1 fork, red, blue and yellow paint, gold glitter How to make it 1. Dip the back of the fork in paint. 2. Your child presses it again and again on the black paper, prints pointing outward from one centre point, to make a round burst. 3. Make more bursts in the other colours. 4. Sprinkle gold glitter over the wet paint. [![Paper bag kite, an easy summer craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C301-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C301-1.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C301-1.webp) ### 23. Paper bag kite The child decorates a paper lunch bag, tapes streamers to the open end and a string to the other, then runs with it outside. **You need:** 1 brown paper lunch bag, crayons, round stickers, crepe streamers, 1 long piece of yarn, tape How to make it 1. Your child scribbles on the bag with crayons and sticks on round stickers. 2. Tape the streamers inside the open end so they trail out. 3. Tape the yarn to the middle of the closed bottom. 4. Hold the yarn and run outside with your child. Nothing matches that filter. Clear it and try again. ## Summer crafts for toddlers: the 5 a young three can do 5 of these a young three can do almost alone: [Coffee filter butterfly](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/summer-crafts-for-preschoolers#c033), [Paper plate jellyfish](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/summer-crafts-for-preschoolers#c136), [Paper plate sun](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/summer-crafts-for-preschoolers#c254), [Fork painted fireworks](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/summer-crafts-for-preschoolers#c087), [Paper bag kite](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/summer-crafts-for-preschoolers#c301). No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest. For the others, you cut and they glue. ## Summer crafts outside: paint, water and a 3 year old Take the paint outside. A paper plate on the deck, a swimsuit instead of a smock, and the hose for cleanup. Paper plates dry in the sun in ten minutes. A three year old can dot marker the jellyfish, paint the sun plate, fork paint fireworks and decorate the kite bag. The pinwheel, the paper weaving turtle and the octopus legs need an adult with the scissors. Handprint fish and the footprint lobster need an adult on the paint. The paper bag kite is the one for a windy day at the park. Decorate it in the morning, tape on the streamers, and run. Hang the jellyfish from the porch ceiling so the tentacles move, stand the watermelon plate on the picnic table, and keep the sea turtle and fish for an ocean wall in the hallway. [Free · 30 questions · about 4 minutes **Before you go: see where your child is for kindergarten** A report with every area at a glance, what to focus on first, and things to do at home. 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