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Preschool Summer Crafts

Cut a 12 1/2 by 6 1/2 piece of orange tissue paper. Wrap the two craft sticks in the tissue paper. You will want them side by side with about 2 inches of the bottom ends showing.

Cut a 3 by 3 1/2 inch piece of white tissue paper and tape it on the top of your ice cream pop! Boy, this is making me hungry.

Cut a 7 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch piece of blue tissue paper. Cut one blue straw, 4 1/2 inches. With the flexible part of the other two straws, blend them.  Tape your blue straw pieces as a frame around the blue tissue paper.

Cut three red straws at the flexible part. Thread them onto a piece of craft string. Tie the string together and cut off any excess to make a swim ring. Put it in your pool and have your Lego boy and girl go swimming!

Draw a wavy line approximately 2 or slightly more inches from the 12-inch side on the blue construction paper.

Draw another blue piece with wavy lines on both sides. The piece should be approximately 8 1/2 by 1 1/2 inches.

Cut the two pieces out.

Glue the blue piece to the top of your piece of paper to represent the ocean.

Cut three pieces of craft foam 3 1/2 by 1 1/2 inches. These will be the beach towels. If you don't have craft foam, you can use construction paper.

Glue the pieces on the brown paper. You can glue them at an angle if you want.

Break a toothpick in half. Each half needs to be the same size. Do the same with the other two toothpicks.

Glue two toothpicks to each beach towel using tacky glue. Let dry.

If you don't want preschoolers playing with toothpicks, you can leave out this step.

Flatten the cupcake liner slightly. Glue near the top of the beach towel so that the liner covers the top of the legs. Close your eyes and listen to the waves as we relax under the summer sun.

Go on a trip outside and find three thin sticks that are not too long. Also, find several tiny rocks. You don't want anything too big as you will be gluing them to construction paper.

Place the sticks on the paper so that they are upright. They will be tree trunks. Remove the sticks and put a line of tacky glue. Place the sticks on the glue. Add more glue to the sides if you think that it needs it.

Near the bottom of the paper, place a semicircle of glue. Add rocks to the glue for a fire ring.

Let everything dry overnight. 

The next day, put a glob of green paint on a paper plate. Take your fork and dip in the paint. Use the tines of the fork to make the leaves. Paint most of the stick. 

Wash your fork. (or get another one) By the way, get a plastic fork and not your mom's good silverware. :) Put a glob of red and yellow paint on the paper plate.

Dip the tines of the fork in the red paint and make flames inside the semicircle of rocks.

Before the paint dries, dip your fork in the yellow paint and paint over the red. Some red and yellow will turn to orange and that is okay.

Let your paint dry.  

Make your tent. Cut a double piece of tissue paper in an oval, 3 by 2 1/2 inches.

 Fold some of the sides and top down so that it looks like a tent. 

Glue to the corner of your picture. 

Make two lines with tacky glue near the front and back of the tent. 

Add toothpicks to the glue. Let your picture dry.

Then hang your masterpiece up and dream of camping in the woods.

Roll the clay so that it is thin. 

Find a 2-inch spice lid and a 1 1/2 inch spice lid. Use the lids to cut two circles. Make the smaller circle thinner. 

With a green marker, color the rim around the larger circle.

Color the smaller circle pink.

Place the smaller circle inside the larger circle and press.

Add black seed beads for seeds. Cut the circle in half with a ruler.  Let dry.

To make the ice cream cone, roll a piece of clay. Use a ruler to cut out a triangle shape. Also, use the ruler to make hash marks in the triangle. 

Color the triangle with a brown marker.

Get a glob of clay to make your ice cream. To make a marbled effect, make some marks on the clay with a marker. Fold the clay and knead.

If it does not have enough color, add more color with the marker. Then fold and knead again until you have the effect that you want. 

Add the clay to the triangle and press. Let dry. 

Add magnets to the back of your watermelon and ice cream with tacky glue.