Summer Crafts for Kids

Colorful, classy, kid-friendly art projects that celebrate the season.

By Karen Brody, MA

Ages

3-14

Summer Crafts for Kids

Family Photo Coloring Book

Turn your favorite summer vacation snapshots and postcards into coloring books!


Butterfly Mobile Craft

These colorful butterflies made of wax paper bring delight to any nursery.


Go Fishing Craft

Bring the ocean indoors with this cute playdate game you make together.


DIY Tie-Dye Outfits

Little trendsetters can help you decorate T-shirts, pants, jumpers, and more with simple spotted patterns.


DIY Sandbox

Kids will dig this sandy activity box. Plus, it's perfect for small spaces!


Summer Bucket List Jar

Help your kids organize their time off with this DIY terrarium.

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Books | Individual Titles | Paperback Book
One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Award winner, and New York Times bestseller One Crazy Summer tells the moving story of three sisters who travel to turbulent Oakland, California, in 1968 in search of the mother who abandoned them.

Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. And even though Delphine must look after her sisters during a summer trip to California to visit Cecile. When they arrive on the West Coast, their mother decides that they will attend a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, the three sisters learn much about their family, their country, and themselves.

Acclaimed author Rita Williams-Garcia writes with insight and humor about family and identity in this brilliant, award-winning middle grade novel. This book won the Coretta Scott King Award and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and was a Newbery Honor Book and a National Book Award Finalist.

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