🍉 31 August Crafts for Kids

The end of summer might be getting closer, but there is still time to enjoy some fun summer crafts for kids, as well as start thinking about back to school with these awesome August crafts. These august craft ideas are perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too. Whether you pick a sunflower crafts, watermelon crafts, cute back to school craft, or on of the other super cute crafts for august – you will find a simple, creative august crafts for toddlers kids will enjoy.

August Crafts

These August crafts for kids are so much fun! There are enough August craft ideas on this list for you to try a new August craft every day of the month! We’ve picked some really fun august crafts for preschoolers, toddlers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students. Celebrate the end of summer with some gorgeous sunflower craft ideas, make some watermelon craft preschool, cute first day of school crafts, or one of our other summer projects like a pineapple, flip flop project, and more. These august art projects for toddlers and elementary age children are easy-to-make and enjoy.

August Crafts for Kids

All you need for these projects are some basic supplies like construction paper, scissors, glue, paint, paper plates, pompoms, popsicle sticks, google eyes, and recycled egg cartons.

Sunflower Crafts

There are so many cheerful yellow sunflower craft ideas for kids to make:

Sunflower craft with oil pastels from Project With Kids Have a go at making this gorgeous sunflower art with easy to follow steps and a printable template.
Black glue sunflower craft from Schooling and Monkey. You could make a whole field of these sunflowers for the wall!
Egg carton sunflowers from Buggy and Buddy. Transform an egg carton into a sunflower!
Leaf sunflower craft from Easy Peasy and Fun. These gorgeous flowers are made out of leaves!
Paper plate sunflower from Happy Hooligans. This is an easy craft that is perfect for little hands.
Simple, paper palte sunflower crafts from 123 Homeschool 4 Me I love that this sunflower craft uses real sunflower seeds.
Folded paper sunflower from I Heart Crafty Things. This is such a clever way to make a sunflower.

Plus learn with the free life cycle of a sunflower worksheet pages or this counting sunflower activity for early learners. You can also practice matching upper and lowercase letters with this sunflower activity.

Watermelon Crafts

Clebrate Watermleon Day on August 3rd with these super cute watermelon craft ideas for all ages:

Watermelon eye weaving from Red Ted Art. This is a fun craft for older kids and there is a great video to show you how to make them.
Paper plate watermelon craft from The Art Kit. How cute are these little slices of watermelon!
Watermelon sponge painting from Fantastic Fun and Learning. This painting activity is a gorgeous way to celebrate summer.
Puffy paint watermelon craft from Crafty Morning. What a fun way to paint watermelons, and there is a DIY puffy paint recipe to try too.
Fruity paper plate envelopes from My Poppet Send some mail in one of these cute watermelon envelopes!
Watermelon pinwheel craft from Kids Craft Room. There is great step by step photos and a video to help you make this fun craft.
W is for Watermelon Handart

Watermelon Activities

Plus don’t miss these cute watermelon activities for kids to go along with your watermelon theme:

Scented Watermelon Playdough
Count playdough “seeds” with these adorable, Free Watermelon Printables
Rows and rows of Watermelon Math Number Lines
Fun-to-play with Fluffy Slime Watermelon Activities for Preschoolers
Cute Suncatcher Watermelon Craft
W is for Watermelon HandArt Project
Scented, Watermelon Kool Aid Play Dough Recipe for summer
SLIME Watermelon Activities for Kids
Exploding Watermelon Science Experiment
Volcano Watermelon Experiment – Summer Activity for Preschoolers
Work on Counting with these Watermelon worksheet
Hands-on Alphabet practice with this Watermelon Activity
Watermelon All About Me Poster
Find the Letter Watermelon Worksheets
Watermelon Printable Counting Clip Cards
Free Watermelon seed counting Activity with printable
Hands-on Watermelon Activity adding seeds with kids fingerprints
Watermelon Activities for Preschoolers
Addition within 10 Watermelon Printable Math Activity
Number Puzzles Watermelon Activities for Preschoolers
Ryming Words Watermelon Activity
Watermelon Letter Matching Game
Fact Family Watermelon Worksheets
Watermelon Life Cycle Spinner
Squish Bag Watermelon Activities for Preschoolers
Plus don’t miss these Watermelon Activities

Back to School Crafts

Whether you are looking for a school bus craft or cute school supplies inspired projects, these are super cute first day of school crafts

Paper roll pencil craft from Easy Peasy and Fun. How fun is this giant pencil!?!
Countdown to school craft from Preschool Inspirations. What a fun way to count the days till school starts!
Back to school photo frame from I Heart Crafty Things. This is such a cute craft stick project.
Easy origami school bus from Pink Stripey Socks. An easy origami tutorial that you can personalize with some art!
Monster pencil toppers from Red Ted Art. Make some of these cute monster pencils to celebrate back to school.
Pool noodle pencil from Lalymom. This giant pencil really writes!
Popsicle stick glue bottle friends craft from Glued to My Crafts How cute are these little guys?!?

First day of school activities

Plus don’t miss these other back to school activities to get your kindergarnter ready to learn:

Glue Number Bonds Worksheets – practicing addition within 20
Practice what comes next with these Back to School Math pencil counting strips
Work on color recognition with these adorable Crayon Box Craft for Preschoolers and Kindergartens
Record your child’s favorite as they head off to school with these All about me printable poster for kindergarten
Celebrate the 1st day of School with these First Day of School Hat.
Back to School Rhyming Activities for Kindergarten
Count to 20 Clip Cards
Back to School Counting Puzzles
Printable Back to School ABC Games
Back to School 1-10 Number Worksheets
Back to School Color by Number
Free School Supplies Tracing Worksheet
I Spy Back to School Printable
Free Back to School Worksheets Preschool
Back to School Theme for Preschoolers
Apple Worksheet Preschool
Crayon Colors Printable Crafts for Kids
School Bus Beginning Sounds Activity
Free Back to School Coloring Pages
Free printable first day of school signs
School Supplies Tracing Lines Free Printables
Super Cute and Easy Pencil Craft
Free Back to School Worksheets – Crack the Code
School Supplies Free sudoku printables
Back to School Printables Bundle
Super cute, Free All About Me Printable Poster for Kindergarten

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August Craft Ideas

Plus don’t miss these other August arts and crafts to make turtles, summer fruit, flip flops, summer memory books, and more!

Monarch butterfly symmetry craft from Buggy and Buddy Celebrate the monarch butterfly migration with this gorgeous craft and practice some math concepts too.
Pom pom pineapple from My Poppet. Another delicious summer fruit is pineapple, and this pineapple craft is gorgeous!
Summer Pencil holders from Red Ted Art. Make these summer fruit pencil holders to celebrate back to school!
Free printable crab hats from Kids Craft Room. If you’ve got time for one more trip to the beach this summer, you should definitely make a crab hat to wear!
Colorful flip flop art from Pink Stripey Socks. This is such a bright and colorful art activity!
DIY paper fan craft from Red Ted Art Is it still hot where you live? Cool off with one of these fans.
Egg carton turtle craft from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls. Sea turtles are laying eggs in some places at this time of, and these little egg carton turtles are a great craft for learning about them.
Paper plate turtle craft from Fireflies and Mudpies. There is a printable template to help you make this cute turtle!
Flower crowns and necklaces from The Artful Parent. Celebrate the end of summer with a crown!
Paper bag summer memory book from I Heart Crafty Things What a lovely way to capture summer memories, and there are some great printables to make this project even easier.