55 Fun Summer Crafts for Tweens
Looking for ideas for your creative tween? This collection of 55 summer crafts for tweens features lots of fun, creative project ideas that are perfect for keeping your tween creating during the long, sunny days of summer – though they are, of course, perfectly fun all year round as well!
And if after all of these ideas, your tween is still left looking for more inspiration, check out our collection of 32 tween art and craft projects and our A to Z of tween boredom busters.
These tween crafts are perfect for filling your summer days at home with your kids, and they would make great summer camp crafts for tweens too!
These art and craft ideas for tweens are all use basic art supplies and have simple instructions so your 9-12 year olds can do thing with little to no help!
From fun emoji crafts, to making simple jewellery, and lots of summer themed crafts, this huge list of ideas includes so many fun crafts for older kids that you will easily be able to find a summer craft project to suit your tween!
Avoid having bored kids all summer long with this huge list of more than 50 cool summer crafts for tweens!
Awesome Summer Crafts for Tweens
These DIY crafts for tweens will keep your kids busy creating and making all summer long. They’ll lovr crafting jewellery, stationery, and other items they can keep or give as gifts!
- Peppermint Lip Balm
This lip balm recipe is a delicious, yet simple, DIY craft for tweens. Once you’ve made one you’ll want to make more! - Homemade Air Dry Modelling Clay Necklaces
Make your own wearable art with this easy homemade air drying clay recipe. Tweens will love designing their own necklaces to wear. - Marbling with nail polish
Use this fun and simple technique to decorate a mug, a glass or even a pencil holder! This is a super cool craft for older kids to try.
- Decorated tennis shoes
This is a super fun, super easy, super cool, tween craft that all kids will love! Your kids will be begging you to buy another pair of shoes so they can make more. - Lego Mosaics
These free printable Lego mosaic templates are a fun and easy craft that 11 year olds and younger tweens will love. - Easy floam slime recipe
Tweens love making slime and this easy floam slime is a great recipe for tweens to try this summer. - Craft Stick & Tissue Paper Lantern
This fun tween craft will look gorgeous decorating their bedroom!
- Magical Glitter Sensory Jar
This is a super easy, and super cool, craft for tweens that only requires a few items to make. - Drip Painted Paper Towel Flowers
Turn this simple art technique into a fun paper craft for tweens! - Easy to fold Origami Fish
Make a whole school of paper fish with this easy origami craft for summer!
- Animal painted mason jars from Color Made Happy.
Tweens will love making these adorable painted jars, perfect for storing pens, pencils and more! - Tie dye beach towel from Mom Endeavors.
This is a super fun tween craft that the kids will love, and you make a gorgeous colourful towel to use at the pool or the beach! - Duct Tape Water Bottle Holder from There’s Just One Mommy
Perfect for summer, these water bottle holders are a fun and useful craft for tweens! - Colourful soapsicles from a DIY Inspired.
This easy soap making activity is the perfect summer craft for tweens! Make a soapsicle that looks good enough to eat!
- DIY citrus bath bombs from Mama Instincts.
Making bath bombs is a great craft for older kids. Not only are they fun to make, but they are fun to use too. - Pineapple candles from Happiness is Homemade.
What is more summery than a pineapple! This fun tween craft is easier to do than you think! - Craft stick marble run from Frugal Fun for Boys & Girls.
Design and create a marble run made out of craft sticks. This is the perfect teen craft for those summer days when you are stick inside. - Ladybird string art from Easy Peasy and Fun.
Grab a hammer and nails and some wool to make this cute string art. It’s a great crafts for older kids to try this summer.
Summer Art for Tweens
Creative kids will love these arts and crafts for tweens ideas. These art activities are easy to do and are great crafts for tweens to do at home. Your kids can really let their creativity run wild with these arty crafty ideas.
- Being Me – Social Emotional Learning Journal
Explore feelings, interests and relationships with lots of creative activities in this great printable journal for tweens. - Painted Emoji Rocks
Your tweens will love this fun emoji craft! Their creativity will really shine as they try this rock painting activity. - Embossed foil artwork
Make super cool summer designs and pictures with this fun and easy sharpie and foil embossing technique.
- Paper pinwheels
This simple pinwheel design is perfect for your tween to be creative and really make a one of a kind art project. - Doodle Art Prompts
Tweens will love making a doodle journal and creating fun drawings with these free printable doodle art prompts. - Rainbow name art
Once you try this simple name art idea you will want to make more and more! Tweens will love this easy art project!
- Free Inspirational Quotes Colouring Pages
Older kids will love these cute colouring pages that also have positive and inspiring quotes on them. - 3 Ways to Draw With Photos
Arty tweens will love starring in their own artwork by using photos to create fun drawings. - Yarn painting from Picklebums.
Tweens will love this fun and colorful art project to make a picture using yarn.
- Painted seashells from Color Made Happy.
This is such a fun and summery craft idea for tweens! These colourful painted shells will look gorgeous displayed on your tween’s shelf! - DIY Polymer Clay Earrings from Mama Smiles
Get creative with some polymer clay! A great tween girl craft for summer. - Comic book templates from Picklebums.
Star in your own comic book with these fun free printables that tweens will love. - Handprint doodle art from The Craft Train.
This handprint art activity is a fun and easy craft for 9 year olds, and great for older tweens too!
- Colourful mandala collages from Picklebums.
Make a colorful mandala suncatcher with this easy summer activity for tweens that everyone will love. - Easy art party activities from Happy Hooligans.
Host a tween art party with your friends and try one of these fun arts and crafts for tweens. - Floating chalk prints from Picklebums.
This is a super cool art and craft activity for tweens that uses chalk and water to make amazing artwork. - Glue and watercolor resist from Rhythms of Play.
This is a fun and easy art technique that tweens of all ages will love.
Summer Camp Crafts for Tweens
These tween craft ideas are great for doing with a group of kids, whether that is at summer camp, a summer party or with a bunch of friends. Your tweens will love these fun camp craft ideas.
- Pom pom bookmarks
Never lose the page in your favourite book again with this fun and easy tween craft that is perfect for summer camp. - Shoelace Ladder Bracelet
These easy to make shoelace bracelets will be a hit as a tween camp craft! - Origami Heart bookmark
This easy tween craft is perfect for a summer camp, or summer party! - Tape Art
Use colorful tape to make gorgeous artwork! This low-mess activity is a great summer camp craft for tweens.
- Twig Frame Weaving
This cool DIY twig frame is the perfect weaving craft activity for tweens. - Homemade Coasters with Sharpie Art
Grab some sharpies and make some gorgeous coasters that tweens can use for summer drinks or give as a gift. - Heart String Art
Tweens will love using a hammer, nails and wool to make this gorgeous heart string art to hang on the wall. - Printable Star Wars Shadow Puppets
Tweens will love printing and making these Star Wars character shadow puppets. Then they can put on a shadow puppet show!
- Heart Paper Lantern Craft
This is a great paper craft for tweens that will look gorgeous light up on a summer’s night. - Paper Mache Pots
This fun summer activity for tweens used paper mache to make adorable little pots! - Heart Pop Up Card Craft
Tweens will have fun making this simple paper pop-up card craft. - Emoji Perler Bead Keychains from Frugal Fun for Boys & Girls.
This is a super fun tween craft that everyone will love to make and hang from their bags.
- Tissue paper flower bracelets from Buggy and Buddy.
These bright and colourful bracelets are an easy craft for tweens to make and only need a few craft supplies. - Sharpie Tie Dye from Playdough to Plato.
This is an easy way to tie dye t-shirts and it makes the perfect summer camp craft for tweens! - Cute washer necklaces from Small for Big.
These necklaces are simple to make and so much fun! They are a great tween camp craft that everyone will love to wear! - Paper ninja stars from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.
This is a low-mess and easy craft for 10 year olds, that older tweens will love making too.
- Make a kite from Buggy and Buddy.
Make a fly a kite with this easy kit craft that is perfect for a windy day outside with a group of tweens. - Lace dream catcher from Happiness is Homemade.
Tweens will love making these gorgeous vintage sheet and lace dream catchers. - Shaving cream marbled art from Hello Wonderful.
Tweens will have a blast making vibrant marbled paper art. - Rainbow friendship bracelets from My Poppet Makes
Learn how to make 3 different styles of friendship bracelets with these instructions. This is a perfect craft for 12 year olds but younger tweens can have a go too.
More Summer Fun for Your Family
If you are looking for more summer activities to do with kids of all ages, try some of these awesome family game night ideas. Or try one of these fun summer activities for families, there’s no end to the fun you can have with these ideas:
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My teens and tweens enjoy rock painting, string art, and other crafts. So I don’t think these are just for small children. Thanks for the ideas.
these crafts are awesome
It’s so cool and me