25 Cheerful Sun Crafts for Toddlers

This educational sunshine craft is the perfect craft for little ones who are learning to recognise numbers.

Using yellow paint, a paper plate and some wooden clothes pegs, your toddlers can create their own easy cun craft and then use it to build up those important numeracy skills as they grow.

This cute sun craft from Look We're Learning makes a bright yellow cheerful sun using coffee filters.

This coffee filter sun craft is super easy for toddlers to make and create.

Make this creative sun craft with wool, perler beads and popsicle sticks

Sometimes the simple ideas are the best ideas, especially where toddler crafts are concerned.

You'll need hardly any supplies for this ripped paper mosaic sun craft. Just grab some yellow construction paper and glue and you're good to go.

Young kids love ripping paper, and bonus - it's actually a great workout for those little hand muscles.

This art project uses sun rays to create prints on paper or fabric, introducing kids to new concepts and helping to understand on a basic level how photography works.

This idea is a brilliant activity for hot sunny days, it is a craft activity you can do outdoors with very little mess and if you don't have the special sunography paper you can get a similar result using just regular construction paper.

Use the sun's rays to project a gorgeous summer image onto the ground.

This rainbow craft is also a sun craft as it's the sun shining through that really gives this craft idea it's wow factor.

You can use this tutorial and adapt this sun catcher craft to make all kinds of different shapes and designs too.

Once you've made this sun catcher craft, young children will have lots of fun running around outside with the finished product, exploring how the light shines through to make a colorful rainbow everywhere!

This you are my sunshine craft is designed as a mother's day project, but you can make a pasta sunshine or noodle sunshine all year round.

This clever idea from Crafty Morning is so simple, it uses the pasta noodles to make the rays of sunshine. Super easy for toddlers to do!

This paper plate sun craft from Buggy and Buddy is a great way to build fine motor skills and to let toddlers express creativity as they stick down all the small pieces, gems, jewels and sparkles.

This fine motor sun craft will keep them busy as they create a super sparkly sun, and thread decorations onto the strings to create the rays of sunshine.

This cute sun and rain cloud craft from Easy Peasy and Fun is a perfect craft for weather units.

The cute little sun and the fluffy cotton balls come together to make this an adorable sunshine craft.

Footprint crafts are as cute as can be.

Use your toddler's footprints to create a personalised keep sake in the shape of a happy summer sun.

Toddlers will have a great time getting their feet messy and stamping their little footprints onto the page.

Paint with something a bit different. Have you ever tried fork painting? This is an exciting tool for kids of all ages to explore.

Grab some yellow paint, orange paint or have the kids mix up their own choice of various colors to create a stunning firey sun painting.

Celebrate summer solstice and the longest day of summer by creating a beautiful sun catcher for the window.

This easy summer craft uses tissue paper and contact paper, and you can print out the template over at nurture store.

Upcycle an old CD to make this scrunched tissue paper sun craft.

This fun summer craft also works for a solar system or space topic, after all the sun is the centre of our solar system so sun crafts also make great space crafts.

This paper folding sun is a simple introduction to origami.

Toddlers can make this smiley face sun by adding googley eyes and a cheerful smiley mouth for a cute happy face

Use craft sticks or popsicle sticks to create this happy smiling sunshine.

Young children will love this easy summer craft, and get creative decorating each craft stick with a fun pattern.

This happy sun from I heart crafty things is mde using yellow cupcake liner and cute little buttons.

This is one of the easy crafts that you could easily do with a group of kids, at playgroup or in preschool class.

This sandpaper sun from no time for flashcards is a great way to explore texture.

Kids can get the sensory benefits of exploring the rough sandpaper texture, talk about how it feels and exploring color with the paint on top.

Use acrylic paint or washable kids paint, either way works well and cutting the rough sandpaper also gives more resistance than cutting regular paper, so gives little hands a work out with the scissor skills.

Get your glitter ready for this gorgeous sparkly paper plate sun and rainbow craft, with streaming colors appearing underneath the sun.

This simple summer craft is a beautiful one to display to brighten up your playroom this summer.

Thread yarn and beads for an engaging fine motor activity that gives a beautiful crafty result

This cool sun with sunglasses is super cute, toddlers are going to love this happy face.

Put together this folded sunshine card from Easy Peasy and Fun. It's ideal for a summer birthday card, or a summer party invitation.

This simple summer sun paper plate craft from Kids Activities Blog couldn't be easier to put together.

Have your little one make some snips to create rays, and add some cool face features and sun glasses with a black sharpie or black paint.

Toddlers will have fun practising their pincer grip pegging and unpegging the plastic clothes pins from this simple sun craft.

It's great fine motor practice!

Make your own sparkly sunshine wand, with this idea from Kids Craft Room. It is perfect for a summer sing and dance.

My toddlers love pretend play with wands, you can be a fairy, a witch, or all kind of magical things. Maybe they can be the sunshine fairy with the power to spread happiness and sunshine all around?!

Make your own tie die sun catcher craft to display in the window with this beautiful summer craft.

Older kids and younger kids alike will enjoy this fun hands on activity.

This handprint craft from the best ideas for kids is a cute and personal way to celebrate the sunshine this summer.

Handprint crafts, like paper plate crafts, are a classic and for good reasons.

Some yellow paint will have your simple doily on the way to be transformed into a cute and happy smiley sunshine before your toddler's eyes.

Cut some circles for the cheeks and lots of strips of paper for the sun's rays.

This sunshine craft is simply adorable.