20 Fun Sun Crafts for Kids to Make This Summer
Brighten up your crafting sessions with these 20 cheerful sun crafts for kids! Perfect for when you need a little sunshine indoors, these creative projects are fun, engaging, and easy. From simple paper crafts to hands-on activities that build fine motor skills, there’s something for kids of all ages.
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Supplies Needed for These Sun Crafts
Before jumping into these sun activities and crafts, let’s review some basic materials you will need. Most of these items can be found in your home, at a local craft store, or on Amazon.
Pick and choose which supplies you use for which activities, and adjust as needed.
Supplies for these fun sunshine crafts include:
Paper Plate Sun Craft
This cute paper plate sun is a great craft, even for young ones. They get to paint, glue, and cut to make a perfect little sun.
Summer Sun Threading Activity
Here’s a fun way to build fine motor skills while crafting. Kids can work on threading pipe cleaners through this paper plate sun, and then threading beads onto the pipe cleaners.
Sun Suncatcher Craft
Here’s a printable template project with the absolute best shape for a suncatcher; the sun. Kids collect flower petals and other pretty items from nature to really make it shine.
Sun Paper Plate Yarn Weaving
This is an amazing sun craft that is too cute to believe. Kids can build fine motor skills by threading the sun with yellow yarn.
Handprint Paper Plate Sun Craft
Kids can lend a hand with this fun sun paper plate craft. The sunrays are made from handprints traced onto yellow paper.
You Are My Sunshine Craft – Sun Handprint
Here’s a cute sun craft that is made to last. The printable template goes perfectly on a wooden circle and is accented by the child’s handprints.
Cutest Paper Plate Sun Craft
This printable paper plate craft is a super cute sunny sky. Textured paper clouds really set off the colorful scene perfectly.
Also, be sure to give these fun paper plate animal crafts a try!
Cardboard Roll Stamp Sun Craft
Toilet paper rolls are a great way to make fun stamps. Kids can stamp these fun little suns and then draw faces in the middle.
Paper Plate Sunshine Craft
This really cute sun craft offers challenges for a wide range of ages. Threading pipe cleaners through the outer edge helps kids build their motor skills.
How to Draw a Sun
Here is a great project that teaches kids how to draw a really pretty sun picture. The flow drawing technique helps guide them to make their own artworks.
Fork-Painted Sun Craft
Fork painting is such a fun process art technique, and kids usually jump at the chance. It makes for the most perfect sun rays in this painted sun craft.
by Little Ladoo
Popsicle Stick & Tissue Paper Mosaic Sun Craft
This craft is a really fascinating deconstructionist approach to making a sun craft. The popsicle stick frame supports a colorful tissue paper suncatcher.
Weather Indicator Paper Plate Craft
Here is a printable template for a weather craft that helps kids learn about identifying the weather. On sunny days, they can point the pointer towards the sun, and change it for windy, rainy, etc. days.
by Conservamom
Paper Bowl Sun Craft
This is a quick, simple craft that is perfect for younger kids. They can turn a paper bowl into a cute little sun with just a few basic supplies.
Cupcake Liner Sun Craft
Grab a sheet of blue paper, some yellow buttons, yellow cupcake liners, and googly eyes for this sun craft. It’s so simple and cute, and activities such as gluing buttons in sunrays are a great way to build fine motor skills.
Paper Sun Craft: Scissor Skill Activity
This sun craft is incredibly easy and perfect for kids of all ages. All they need to do is cut out triangles, which they can arrange to create their own unique sun design.
Give these other easy paper crafts a go!
Rainbow Sun Craft
Rainbows couldn’t exist without sunlight, so the two are a natural pairing. Make a construction paper sun with rainbow sun rays arcing outward.
Be sure to try these other neat rainbow crafts!
Earth, Moon, Sun Paper Craft
This sun craft brings a touch of outer space into the mix! Kids can create a fun paper craft featuring the Earth, Moon, and Sun.
If you love these, you’ll love these popsicle stick crafts as well!
Sun Painting
This isn’t a sun craft, so much as it’s a craft that requires sun. Making sun-painted towels is so easy, and the printable template makes it even easier.
Paper Plate Sun Craft
This easy sun craft is great for preschoolers to develop their fine motor skills. They can thread yarn through holes in a paper plate and add straw segments onto the yarn for a fun, hands-on activity.
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