50 Boredom Busters: Crafts & Activities for Hours of Summer Fun

1. Go back in time and make can phones
2. Get sewing with these beautiful printable sewing cards
3. Have some ooey gooey fun with homemade slime
4. Learn about science and let your kids think you are amazing by making some oobleck
5. Make a summer journal covered with your child’s artwork
6. Explore underwater with a DIY aqua scope
7. Catch butterflies with a homemade butterfly net
8. Have fun with a bubble blower
9. Hold a backyard regatta with these clever juice box boats
10. Make your own dazzling Kaleidoscope
11. Paint it up with amazing homemade puffy paint
12. Set your back yard a glow with beautiful tin can lanterns
13. Strike up the band with your own homemade musical instruments
14. Make friendship bracelets for all your friends
15. Add a new pet to your family with this cute pet rock tutorial
16. Tell your fortune with this printable fortune teller
17. Make your beach towel super easy to carry to the pool by making it into a clever beach towel tote bag
18. Make an entertaining yo yo balloon
19. Make your own DIY Chia Pet
20. Bring on the rain with a homemade rain stick
21. Create a beautiful bracelet on your next nature walk
22. Play with you food with this edible food paint
23. Practice crochet and create a beautiful crochet mosaic
24. Make smores on a stick
25. Make your own scratch off paper –so cool!
26. Make chalk paint to decorate side walks and patios
27. Get creative and make your own Stepping Stones
28. Personalize your own Yo Yo
29. Keep in touch with friends with these homemade postcards
30. Watch Brave and make a DIY bow and arrow
31. Make your own beary cute softie with this printable
32. Go on a adventure and keep your boys happy all summer with this duct tape bull whip
33. Marbleize Paper with this recipe
34. Plant some fun and create a flower pot person
35. Go outside and play catch with this DIY bleach bottle catch game!
36. Make your own fabric scrap dolls
37. Decorate your flip flops with this duct tape flower
38. Stamp out boredom and make your own homemade rubber stamps
39. Have a water fight with these summer sponge bombs
40. Sew a simple bookmark for your favorite book
41. Get involved with nature with DIY Bird house
42. Cool off with the best ice cream sandwich recipe
43. Make bread in a bag
44. Make ice cream in a bag
45. Keep kids reading by read the book “Arnie The Doughnut” and then make felt donuts
46. Make rock candy
47. Guaranteed hours of fun make homemade playdough
48. Create your very own creature!
49. Do more than color make your own crayons in cool shapes for all sorts of fun
50. Make your own Lemonade Stand

Don’t let the fun end here! How about these fun summer crafts and kids activities.

• Outside Tic Tac Toe Toss Game
• Homemade 3-D Chalk Paint
• DIY Pom Pom Flip Flops

If you find it too hot or rainy to be outside these indoor crafts would entertain and engage little hands for hours!

• Paper Towel Butterflies
• Get a head start on your Christmas gifts this summer by making DIY Child’s Art Candles
• Painted Pasta Necklaces