Mr T and I wanted to do a simple and easy summer craft. All of my boys enjoy cutting and sticking so we decided to cut up some summer and beach themed pictures from a spare catalogue and use these to make a summer collage. Mr T decided to make his collage into a flag, because he really likes flags!
A lot of the Spring Summer clothing catalogues have done their photoshoots on the beach, or you can use a suitable magazine or even old book pages if you have something that has been damaged and is no longer needed.
We cut out lots of different seaside themed pictures. Cutting is a great fine motor skills exercise for little ones. Then Mr T selected a blue paper for his background. That’s his favourite colour which luckily matches very nicely with the sea theme. We used Bostik Blu Stick. The great thing about this glue is that it goes on blue so it is very visible for your child to see exactly where they have applied glue and where they need to add a little more.
Mr T loved this simple activity of cutting and sticking, it’s something he can do independently with me just watching and chatting to him about the pictures so he felt very proud of his collage flag which was all his own work.
Look at him concentrating! These simple activities are great to help build concentration and as this is a quick craft it’s suitable for kids like Mr T who don’t have the longest attention span. He stayed happily with the activity until he had covered the full page.
He then wanted to make his collage into a flag so we taped a pipe cleaner to the back of the page to make the mast part of the flag. You can get proper flag sticks, but we just improvised with what was to hand!
The whole craft is very easy, mess free and Mr T completed this in about 20 minutes. He was very happy with his summer flag!
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You can use the beach picture cards from our beach scavenger hunt activity to cut out and use for your collage.
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Nice work mr T 😉
Your son is so cute, he looks so pleased with himself! x
Such a nice idea. It’s so bright and colourful and your son certainly looks pleased with the end result!
Love this!! My kids are too young (my oldest is 20 months but going through an “I don’t like mess on my hands phase”!) I really hope they grow up to be crafty. I learnt so many crafty things from my mum that i would love to pass on!x
What a fun activity. This would be a great way to kick off summer!
Thanks for linking up to the Parenting Pin It Party last week x x
Super cute and great fun. thanks for joining int #GetYourCraftOn
Sticking and gluing is so much fun 🙂 #Pintorials
Great work Mr T! Lovely and summery
Lovely flag! Great job Mr T! They look so cool!
That’s great fun, and he looks so proud of his work 🙂 #Pintorials
He looks so proud of his work. I love that! Thank you so much for linking this wonderful post up to The Sunday Showcase.
This is a great flag craft to teach children about flags. How fun to make your own flag. This will be great around 4th of July time and flag day to make a fun and easy craft. My little guy love craft time and this will be added to it for sure. Thank for sharing.
Such a wonderful activity for kids. I will be putting this on our to do list.
Thank you for linking up with the #WeekendBlogHop
Laura x x x
What a sweet idea! Thanks for linking up with The Thoughtful Spot!