Kids Summer Crafts - Decorating Flower Pots Craft

This is one of our really fun kid's summer crafts. It can also be used as a spring craft and then you can plant some plant in it that needs to be planted in spring. Doing kids summer crafts is a way to get outdoors with the kids and have fun in the sun.

What you need for this crafts:

• Terra-Cotta flower pots
• Acrylic paint
• Paintbrushes
• Thick white crafts glue
• Paint markers
• Pencil
• Clear fat glass marbles (you should get these at a crafts shop)
• Potting soil
• A suitable seedling for the pot
• Watering can with water

How to do this craft:

In this craft we are going to decorate our flower pots with different slithery snakes and some bugs.

1. Let's start with a snake to coil around the pot
2. Take the marbles and draw eyes with paint on the flat side of the marbles. If you do not want to do this you can of course get colored marbles and use as is.
3. Let the easy dry.
4. With your pencil draw a snake's head and the snake's body curling around your pot and ending at the bottom.
5. Using your paint, color in your snake. Leave spaces spread over the body of your snake so you can use another color and paint spots and stripes for your snake.
6. Let the one color dry and then do the spots.
7. Use the paint markers to draw the outlines of your snake.
8. Now ask an adult to paint your thumbs with paint.
9. Press your thumb on any of the empty spaces between your curling snake to make the bodies of ladybirds.
10. Draw the detail of the ladybird's spots etc. with your paint marker.
11. Stick the snake's eyes on with the clue and let it dry.
12. Fill your pot with potting soil and plant your seedling.
13. Water your plant.

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Food Crafts For Kids - Make Your Own Soda

This is one of our easy Food Crafts For Kids that is maybe more of a science lesson than a crafts. With this craft the kids will see how the acid in the juice reacts with the alkaline bicarbonate of soda. In this easy food craft for kids they make a simple lemon and orange soda that is good enough to drink.

What you need for this craft:

• 2 Cups freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 Cups freshly squeezed orange juice
• 2 Teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• 4 Teaspoons of sugar
• 4 Cups of water

How to do this craft:

1. Mix the juices and the water.
2. Add the sugar and stir until melted.
3. Add the bicarbonate of soda and stir (observe the bubbles as the carbon dioxide forms as a result of the bicarbonate of soda reacting with the juice.)
4. Your soda drink is ready to drink.

You have to drink the soda immediately as the bubbles will disappear fast when the reaction stops.

This craft is an example of the many food crafts for kids that is more than just fun, it is a science lesson as well.

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Food Crafts For Kids: Baking Tasty Bread Rolls

This is one of our food crafts for kids that can serve as a science lesson as well. You can explain to the kids how the yeast grows on the flour and sugar to produce carbon dioxide and that it is the bubbles of carbon dioxide trapped in the dough that gives the bread its lovely soft texture.

As this craft use heat, it must be done with adult supervision. I also do not think the kids will mange the kneading on their own. Make sure you use oven mitts when you take the rolls out of the oven.

What you need for this craft:

• 1 lb Strong white bread flour
• 1 Teaspoon salt
• 2 Teaspoons easy-blend instant yeast
• 2 Teaspoons sugar
• 1 Cup of boiled cooled water (you may need a little more depending on the strength of the flour)
• 2 Tablespoons of oil
• Milk for brushing
• A food brush
• A greased baking tray
• A large glass bowl
• A wooden spoon
• Sesame seeds
• Oven mitts
• Wire rack

How to do this craft:

1. Sift the flour and the salt into a glass bowl.
2. Add the sugar and yeast and stir it in.
3. Pour the warm water and the oil into this mixture and stir it in with the wooden spoon to make a soft dough (the water must only be warm and not too hot or it will kill the yeast and your bread rolls will not rise.)
4. Now you have to dust a clean work surface with flour.
5. Place the dough onto this surface and gently knead it until soft and elastic.
6. Keep on kneading, folding the dough and kneading again for about 10 minutes (you and mom will have to take turns!)
7. Place the dough back into your bowl and cover it with plastic cling wrap.
8. Leave the dough in a warm place to rise until it has doubled in size. This should take about 1 ½ hours.
9. Going back to your work surface, sprinkle it with flour again and knead it for about a minute to squeeze out any large air bubbles.
10. Now you break the dough into 12 even pieces.
11. Roll each piece into a ball and place it on your baking tray.
12. Cover the rolls with cling wrap and let them rise in a warm place until they have doubled in size (about 40 minutes)
13. Preheat the oven to 425⁰ F or gas mark 7.
14. Brush the rolls with a little milk and sprinkle it with the sesame seeds.
15. Bake the rolls in the oven for 12-15 minutes until done (to test if they are done knock on them lightly and they should sound hollow, remember to use oven mitts!)
16. Take the rolls out of the oven and leave them to cool in the baking tray for two minutes.
17. Place them on a wire rack to cool.

You may be wondering why the rolls stop rising once in the oven. It is because the heat of the oven kills the yeast and it stops growing. So, in this food craft for kids we have learned about yeast and how it works in the baking process. This is an example of food crafts for kids that can be very helpful in homeschooling.

As summer is coming you may be looking for summer crafts, you can get really fun summer crafts at Fun Kids Craft And on the same site you can get Bible Crafts to turn any bible story lesson into a fun activity. If you are looking for even more crafts you will find lots of crafts at Fun Kid Crafts and Bible Crafts for kids.

Kid's Summer Crafts: Make A Bird Cake Summer Crafts

This is one of our Kid's Summer Crafts that can be responsible for hour of pleasure and learning for the kids. Making the bird cake is great fun and afterwards, watching the birds feed and noting which birds are attracted by the cake, is even more fun. Show the kids to keep a safe distance and to be completely still so as not to scare the birds away.

Because the fat is going to be melted on the stove, this craft has to be done with adult supervision.

What you need for this easy kid's summer craft:

• A bowl
• Hard white cooking fat (in South Africa we will use Holsum)
• Breadcrumbs
• A variety of chopped nuts
• Some mixed bird seed
• Oatmeal
• A plastic cup
• A spoon
• A small saucepan
• A piece of string
• A pair of scissors
• A nut shell with a hole in it

This is how you do this craft:

1. Cut a long piece of string.
2. Thread it through the hole in the nut shell and make a really big not at the bottom where the string goes through the shell. This should prevent the string from pulling out of the shell.
3. Take your cup and measure a little of all the nuts, bird seed, breadcrumbs and oatmeal to be enough to almost fill your cup.
4. Place this mixture into the bowl.
5. Heat some of your fat in the saucepan until it is melted. Let an adult help you.
6. Pour this melted fat on top of your seed mixture in the bowl.
7. Using a spoon mix this thoroughly so that all the food is well covered with the fat and can easily stick together.
8. Place your sting with the shell and knot side at the bottom in the cup.
9. Spoon your cake mixture into the cup pressing down well so that it fits in tight.
10. Make sure that you keep the string in the middle so that the end of the string comes out of the middle of your cake. This will ensure that your cake will hang better on the tree.
11. Allow the cake to cool down completely until the fat has set and is hard.
12. When your mixture is set, pull the cake out of the cup carefully, with the string.
13. Now your bird cake is ready for you to hang it outside on a branch and to start your bird watching.

As you can see, this is one of our kid's summer crafts that is a craft and a biology lesson all in one. This makes the craft very suitable for homeschoolers. Use the opportunity to draw the kids' attention to all the different birds visiting your cake and what it is they eat. Making the cake is fun but, once the cake is finished, you can simply put out some left over food such as bread crumbs, leftover rice, cheese fruit etc. and watch the birds feasting.

If you are looking for more Kids Summer Crafts you can go to Fun Kids Crafts.
You can also get very good bible crafts at Bible Crafts For Kids.
For last minute mother's day crafts you can get those on Fun Kids Crafts as well.