Children love turtles. This turtle paper plate craft is a fun, easy preschool craft project. To make this craft, you will need:

• Two paper plates
• Brown construction paper
• Green craft paint
• Google eyes
• Scissors
• Glue
• Dried beans (optional)
• Felt tip pen

Your child will need two paper plates to make one turtle. Have your child use the green paint to paint the bottom side of both paper plates. Allow to dry.

Next cut out the arms, legs, etc. Using the scissors and brown construction paper, cut out four small rectangles for legs, a small triangle for the tail, and a circle for the head. You can outline them first with a pen if you wish, but it isn’t necessary. I just cut mine out freehand.

Glue the edges of the arms, legs, tail, and head to the top edge of one of the paper plates.

If you wish you can put some dried beans onto the plate so that when you glue the plates together the turtle will rattle when your child shakes it. This step is optional.

Next glue the second plate to the first plate. The tops of the plates should be glued together so that the painted sides are facing out. The arms, legs, tail, and head should be sticking out between the two plates.

Help your child glue the google eyes on to the head. Let your child use the felt tip pen to draw on a nose and mouth and to decorate the “shell” of the turtle, if they wish.

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Summer and beach go together. So what can be a better, Easy Summer Craft than making a pair of “arty” flip-flops for the beach? With this craft the kids can give their imaginations free reign. Let them have fun transforming an ordinary pair of flip-flops into a fashion accessory!

What you will need for this easy summer craft:

• A pair of flip-flops of the right size
• Permanent paint pens in all the colors you want to use

 How you do this craft:

1. Use the pens according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Normally you only have to shake them and then they are ready for use.
2. Take a minute to plan your pattern before you start, so you know what you want to do.
3. Now you can doodle to your heart’s content!
4. Start with one color and let it dry completely before you start with another color otherwise the colors may run.
5. When your flip-flops are done, let them dry for at least 15 minutes before you start wearing them.

Now you are ready for a fashionable day on the beach!

Summer and parties are also synonymous. Why not make your party soft drinks more fun with these fruit ice cubes? Lemon ice cubes taste very good in ice tea, so give your imagination free reign with the combinations.

Easy Summer Craft: Make fruit ice cubes to keep your summer party drinks cold

As a knife is used for this craft, adult supervision is needed. You are also going to use plastic bags, so be aware of the danger of suffocation!

What you need for this summer craft:

• The different kinds of fruit you want to use
• A knife
• As many ice cube trays as you can find because you will have to make quite a lot of ice
• A cutting board
• Water
• Large plastic bags

How to do this craft:

1. On your cutting board, using your knife cut up your fruit into pieces that will fit into the ice cube trays. Do not do too many at one time as the fruit will spoil if you cannot work fast enough. So, do this in stages.
2. Place a piece of fruit in each hole of your ice cube tray.
3. Fill up the holes with water and place it in the freezer to freeze until solid.
4. Continue until you have filled all your ice cube trays.
5. The best way to make a large amount of these fruit ices is to de-mold the cubes as they are ready. Now you can place them in the freezer in a plastic bag. This way you can use the same ice cube trays over and over until you have used all your fruit. You can see now why I said you must not cut up all the fruit at once.

If you want to take this craft a little further, you can also make use of edible flowers to make pretty flower ices.

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