Kids will love this fun to make silly grass craft that is a blast to watch grow! This is the perfect spring or summer craft you’ll want to add to your summer bucket list.
As spring and summer start to appear, kids are ready to be outside. They are tired fo cold rainy days inside and excited to get outside and enjoy this beautiful weather. From the green grass, the beautiful flowers, the sweet smell or lilacs in the air, the gentle breeze, and delightful sound of children’s laughter fills the air.
As kids get out side they have their standy activities like swinging, going down the slide, sandboxes, slip n slide, drawing in chalk on their driveway, blowing bubbles, hoola hoop, playing catch, making flower crowns from dandelions, But kids enjoy having new experiences, trying something different for a change.
This summer craft for kids is one of the easiest ones you can try – and it appeals to both boys and girls because it isn’t a traditional craft that uses paint, glitter, or other messy things. This is a living craft that will change day by day. It is fun to make and even more fun to watch grow and change all season long.
Grass Craft
Grass Head Craft
- panty hose (any color / size – check if mom has an old stretched out pair or try to find cheap ones at a garage sale, womens clearance department, or the dollar store)
- pipe cleaners (your choice of colors – yellow, white, purple, green, pink, red, blue, green, etc.)
- google eyes (large googly eyes look the best in my opinion)
- hot glue gun (only costs $5 and I use mine all the time)
- sand (any type of sand to fill the panyhose)
- quick growing grass seed (whatever you have on hand)
Summer Bucket List Ideas
Cut off the leg of a pair of panty hose or stockings. Tie a knot in the end which will be the nose.
Summer Crafts for Kids
Fill the stocking with sand to make it as big or small as you’d like your people craft to be.It helps to have one person hold the hosiery open while another person carefully pours the sand in so that you don’t make a mess.
Lay your sand filled stocking so that the sand is laying horizontally on your surface and you can sneak in grass seed at the “top” of what will be your grass head’s head. Our grass seed we had on hand was blue which made it really easy to see where it had ended up.
From toddlers, preschoolers, pre k, kindergartners, 1st graders, 2nd graders to elementary age kids and junior high children – this summer project is fun for kids of all ages!
Tie the other end of the stocking in a knot and trim off any extra material.
See how all the grass is at the top of the grass head.
Summer Kids Activities
Then use your hot glue gun (carefully – with adult supervision so you don’t hurt yourself) add your facial features using googley eyes and pipe cleaners to create your grass head face. we used pipe cleaners to makes smiles, glasses, bow ties, etc. Kids will ahve fun using their creativing to design their own outdoor puppet.
Spring Activities for Kids
Thoroughly drench your silly crafts for kids with water. (If it is raining out – just stick it outside!) Now place your outdoor craft project in a sunny place outside like a patio table, club house, or indoors on a sunny window sill.
Don’t forget to water your grass heads 1-2x daily. If it is outside just water generously. If it is inside you can either dunk it in water or spritz with a water sprayer. The grass should emerge within a week.
After 5 days we had these silly grass head crafts that my kids were just crazy about! Don’t forget to keep watering your grass head every day or two to keep the grass seed growing all summer long. The longer you let it go the longer the hair will get and you can even style the grass head, give your grass figure a hair cut or trim with scissors, etc.
HINT: We put grass down the face of the middle one so it would grow hair all over. You could try to get it to grow as just a mustache if you like. The possibilities are endless!
Fun Summer Activities
Get ready for an epic summer with a lot of creative, fun, and memorable crafts and activities for kids:
- FREE Summer Color by Number – fun, no prep summer learning worksheets
- Ice Cream Summer Bucket List – ideas to keep kids having fun and making memories all summer long
- Ice Cream EDIBLE Playdough Recipe – super easy to make
- Fun-to-Make Ice Cream in a Bag
- 24 Must Read Summer Stories for Kids
- FREE Summer ABC Game
- Create your own Lego Zipline
- Amazing Dying Flowers Summer Science Experiment
- Amazing Bubble Painting for Kids
- Exploding Watermelon Science
- Backyard Ice Boat Races
- Summer Sun Alphabet Tracing
- 100 Amazing Food Science Experiment
- 38 Summer Learning Activities
- DIY Lava Lamp Experiment
- Summer Handwriting Worksheets for Prek and Kindergarten
- Bleeding Tissue Paper Fireworks Summer Craft
- First Day of Summer Printable Hat craft
I bet my kids will love this project.
It was a favorite at our house!! I hope your kids like it too!
Do you soak them daily or just wet slightly during the week after planting?
Keep the grass well watered as you would new grass seed.