Teach your preschooler to recognize the color yellow with these yellow crafts that include ducks, flowers, and the sun.
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Summer is the perfect time to learn about the color yellow! It’s such a warm and sunny color, you’ll find it everywhere.
In addition to practicing color recognition, we collected crafts that will encourage hand-eye coordination, cutting and pasting, and other kindergarten readiness skills.
Yellow is next to orange on the color spectrum and sometimes things in the real world can be in-between, making it tricky to learn. We recommend sticking with the “crayon yellow” shade while teaching to make it easier!
Yellow craft inspiration
- Think about all the things around you that are naturally yellow: the sun, flowers, fruits, and birds.
- Yellow is a primary color. Try using it alongside the other primary colors with these red crafts and blue crafts.
- Turn any craft project yellow with the right supplies, like these braided friendship bracelets or homemade playdough.
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Yellow Crafts for Kids
Tissue Paper Flowers
These tissue paper flowers look like fluffy dandelions. Make a whole bouquet of them to decorate.
Bumble Bee Paper Plate
Turn leftover party plates into cute little striped bees. This activity is great for kids who need to practice cutting.
Lemon Stamping Art
Lemons make lovely shapes for this process art activity. Preschoolers and big kids will enjoy creating shapes and patterns.
Bee Toilet Paper Tube
Turn a paper tube into an adorable bee. Learn about the color yellow and how important these little pollinators are for your garden.
Paper Plate Chick
Break out the washable paints to craft this paper plate chick. The feathers are the perfect little detail kids will enjoy.
Paper Cone Bee
Learn all the facts about bees while you make this paper cone bee. The printable template makes this a great alternative to a paper tube.
Egg Carton Flower Garden
Make an egg carton flower garden filled with beautiful yellow roses. Crafty Kids Play has a template for the leaves.
Paper Plate Sunflower
This sunflower craft uses an unexpected material - pasta! It's the ideal golden hue for making flowers.
Paper Plate Chick Craft
This cute paper plate chick is so fun! The wiggly eyes make it pop, so be sure to pick some up from the craft store if you don't have some already.
Fine Motor Sun Craft
After you paint this bright yellow sun, kids can have fun matching numerals from one to 10.
"You Are My Sunshine" Paper Plate
This spinning paper plate craft is a lovely project that kids can make as a gift. The smiling face goes along with the classic kids' song.
Painted Bumble Bee Rocks
Smooth round rocks turn into friendly striped bees with just a bit of paint. Collect stones on a nature walk or from your backyard.
Paper Plate Tropical Fish
Print a template and make a friendly tropical fish from a paper plate. This would be a fun activity to do along with reading about fish that are yellow!
Fork-Painted Sunflower Craft
This lovely art is made using an unusual paintbrush - a fork! Paint a single sunflower or make up a whole bunch to decorate for summer.
Fork-Painted Sun
Fork painting encourages fine motor skills and the lines created by the tines resemble the sun's rays on a hot summer day.
Felt Chick Sewing Project
Grab the printable template to make this fuzzy little chick. Older kids will be amazed by what they can make with basic hand-sewing skills.
Banana Craft
Kids love bananas and this one is just silly! Print and cut, then use this banana for other crafts or decorating.
Paper Plate Duck Puppet Show
Turn a paper plate into a pond for tiny duck puppets. Step-by-step instructions will help you make a whole flock to go swimming.
Need more yellow crafts? Check out our collection of sunflower crafts next!
Yellow is the third color craft in our series. Make learning colors fun by choosing a color of the day or week to focus on. Find the other posts in this series below.
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