Beat the Heat With This Kids Summer Craft
Where are my crafty moms at? I know crafting isn’t everyone’s thing, but I promise you that this kids summer craft is SUPER easy! I’ve done all the figuring out for you, so just follow my easy step by step instructions below and boom, your kids just got a new fun craft and hours of entertaining with the fan when they’re done. I don’t know about you, but I call this a Mom Win!
What are you waiting for? Let’s get going!
Supplies needed to make this kids summer craft:
The following supplies are for the watermelon frutti fan.
- Construction paper (3 pink, 1 green)
- 2 wood junior tongue depressors (regular size or wood popsicle sticks would work too. I’ve linked the regular size below because they were most affordable, I got mine at our local drugstore)
- Paper cutter or scissors
- Glue stick
- Hot glue
- String and drill bit (optional)
Cut 2, 1″ strips of green construction paper, on the long edge. We are going to making 3 of these, so you can go ahead and cut all 6 strips now if you want.
Use a glue stick to attach one green strip to each side of the pink construction paper.
Fold the pink paper in half, as shown in the photo. This fold just helps later on when you attached it all together.
Use a Sharpie or black felt pen to draw watermelon seeds. We made it fun and drew heart shaped seeds.
Fold the paper, about 1″ as shown in the next photo. Alternate folding towards the front and back to resemble an accordion. Keep folding until you reach the end. If you have too large of a piece at the end, just trim it with the paper cutter or scissors.
REPEAT THESE STEPS TO MAKE 2 MORE (3 in total)!!
When you have 3 accordion – like pieces of paper, fold and glue them together with the glue stick. First, fold each one in half (along the fold you made at the very beginning) and then glue together.
Then glue each of the 3 together.
Using the hot glue gun, attach the tongue depressor to either end of the fan. Make sure that the end sticking out, is at the green edge of the fan. I also added a bit of extra hot glue to the centre of the fan to make it a bit stronger.
NOTE: if you’re wanting to add string to the tongue depressors, ensure to drill holes in them prior to gluing.
Attach a piece of string or yarn to the tongue depressors. Make sure it is long enough so the fan can open properly.
There you go! You've got some fun frutti fans for you or your littles!
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not familiar with white glue, something like modge podge or regular school glue
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