Summer Sand Crafts

This is a really fun summer craft; you could pretty much do anything with it, it could also be really abstract and artistic. Take a look at what we did:

What you’ll need:
Construction Paper
Glue
Sand
Blue glitter
Green and yellow foam paper
Scissors
Shoe box

Draw a picture of an island and a palm tree on your construction paper. While you do that have your child mix blue glitter and some sand (word of caution, don’t overdo it with the sand like we did, you want the mixture to be a little more blue).

We had created a summer sensory box including sand, sea shells & beads to hunt for in the box, mini sand bucket and a mini shovel. I got the idea for a sensory box from a Montessori learning technique.

Once the sand is mixed have your child apply glue to the area of the sea in the drawing, place it into a shoe box and add the glitter sand mixture. Shake it all around until the sand sticks to the glue and remove.

Repeat the same with the palm tree. Add glue to the island area and the tree trunk, place back in the box and add clean sand. Shake around until it’s glued to the paper. Then glue green foam cut outs to the top of the palm tree for branches and the yellow foam for the sun.

If you like you could just add glue to the island and the palm tree and be left with a very simple creation. It would be great for an older child or an adult to experiment with that. For Emma I wanted to add other materials and colors to work with.
She loved the craft, and she ended up playing for quite a bit longer in her sensory box, adding sand from one bucket to another, burying and finding shells and beads, making swirls with her fingers.

Have fun!
Vanja
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