Summer Fun Recipes, Sidewalk Chalk, Paint and Bubbles Recipes

Summer fun recipes with the kids outdoors is what summer is all about.  Try our outdoor summer fun recipes with bubbles, chalk and paint recipes you can make with the kids.

Kids can learn the science behind making sidewalk chalk and paint.  Make multi-colored chalk that’s cool to use.  Create different colored paints and use paint brushes and rollers to help paint the driveway with works of art.

Can’t get enough of bubbles during the summer with kids.  Make easy bubbles that will last with this fun bubble recipe.  Make different colors for fun bubbles and use things around the house to create your own bubble blowers.

DIY Bubbles for Fun in the Sun

Try this fun bubbles recipe to make your own colored bubbles. All you need is liquid dish washing soap, water, sugar and food coloring. For added fun you can make your own bubble blowers using pipe cleaners. Try making different sizes for small and large bubbles.

summer fun recipes with make your own bubbles recipe

DIY Sidewalk Chalk Summer Fun Recipe

Ever thinking of making your own chalk with the kids? Try this at home using simple ingredients like plaster of paris, water, tempera paint, plastic gloves, containers to make the molds, wax paper. Don’t forget to read all safety instructions on package (plaster of paris) before mixing. Make as many different colors of chalk you want. When your chalk is ready to test, try on a chalk board or driveway.

DIY Sidewalk Paint

This easy to make sidewalk paint is great for the little artist. Use simple ingredients such as cornstarch, water and food coloring to make the perfect colors. Use paint brushes and rollers for fun designs. Don’t forget to take a picture of the work of art!

sidewalk paint recipe with pictures of paint brushes, paint and paint roller.

Find these and more summer recipes. Make friendship dough, print a camp scavenger hunt, summer journal or sit and relax with puzzles, crosswords, mazes and coloring pages.

Summer Coloring, Sun, Beach, Swimming, Doodles

Kids Summer Coloring pages for those rainy days or while traveling abroad.  Keep the kids entertained with a variety of fun summer coloring pages that are free and easy to print.  Summer coloring is a great way to keep the kids busy while mom or dad need a break or the kids need some quiet time after a busy day.   Choose from silly suns, fun at the beach, scuba swimming, tricky skateboarding, summer doodles or just fun in the sun coloring.  Read below for more ways to use summer coloring pages.

Summer Coloring with Sun, Beach and Swimming Pages

Sun Coloring

Can’t head to the beach or go outside during those hot summer days?  Try some fun in the sun coloring pages from kidscanhavefun.com.  Cute and fun sun pictures with many different pictures to choose from. Sun pictures with smiling faces, sad faces, suns with hats,  suns with glasses, sun with rainbow, sun with clouds and just silly suns.  These sunny pictures will make the kids laugh.

beached waltermelon on a beach

Beach Coloring

Kids can think cool thoughts with these fun beach coloring pictures.  Color pictures of kids playing in the sand, playing on the beach. There’s a beached watermelon enjoying a refreshment while laying in the sun!

Swimming Coloring

Fun swimming coloring pages to add some color to scuba dog, girl with duck swimming ring and boy scuba diver.

Skateboard Coloring

Color some skateboarders this summer performing their tricks. Have you ever seen a gorilla skateboarder?

boy skateboard

Fun in the Sun Coloring

For those everyday fun in the sun coloring days choose from a girl blowing bubbles, picking flowers or watering flowers. This picture has a lazy summer day with a boy laying in a field of flowers.

boy laying in flowers

Doodle Coloring

Keep the kids coloring with these fun Summer Coloring Doodles.  Choose from summer fruit doodles, sunny days, kids summertime fun, summer bugs and weather characters.

Print all the summer doodles and put together as a coloring book for travel or dining out. Fun doodles to color on those hot summer days when you just can’t leave the house.

kids playing in the summer

Fun Ways to Color

Crayons are a great way to color but there are other fun ways too.  Try using paint, watercolors, color pastels as well as colored pencils.  Kids can mix up their paints to make exciting new colors. Print our color wheel activity to help them learn what colors make new colors.

Have the kids color a few pictures and then cut and paste them onto a summer scene that they want to create.

Ask the kids what different ways they think that pictures can be colored.