Here’s a list of seasonal arts, crafts, activities, ideas and more for the month of August.
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AUGUST 1
Sports Day
Try This ► Salt Dough Sports Magnets
Try This ► Salt Dough Football
Explorer William Clark’s birthday, 1770
Try This ► National Geographic Puzzle Explorer
AUGUST 2
Ice Cream Sandwich Day
Try this: ► Homemade Ice Cream
Try this: ► Pop Art Ice Cream Painting
Friendship Day
Try this: ► Make friendship pins!
Try this: ► Make crafts with your friends.
Signing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
Try this: ► Patriotic Star Craft
Try this: ► Patriotic Box Craft
Try this: ► Patriotic Candle Jars
AUGUST 3
Watermelon Day
Try this: ► Watermelon Painting
Try this: ► Watermelon Cookies
Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain on this day in 1492
Try this ► Make Tiny Boats
AUGUST 4
Chocolate Chip Day
Try this: ► Make chocolate chip cookies!
AUGUST 5
Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s Birthday, 1930
Try this: ► Cosmic Mobiles
Try this: ► Paper Mache Planets
AUGUST 6
Peace Day
Try this: ► Make a symbol of peace
Wiggle Your Toes Day
Try this: ► Footprint Chicks
Try this: ► Aloha Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
AUGUST 7
Sea Serpent Day
Lighthouse Day
Try this: ►Lighthouse Coloring Page
AUGUST 9
Smokey the Bear’s Birthday (1944)
Try this: ► Make a paper campfire
AUGUST 10
Mother Teresa’s Birthday (1910)
AUGUST 11
Play in the Sand Day
Try this: ► Clay Sandcastle Activity
Try this: ► Layered Sand in Jars Craft
Try this: ► Sand Painting Lesson
AUGUST 12
Hawaii annexed to the US on this day in 1871
Try this: ► Aloha Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
AUGUST 13
Fall of the Aztec Empire (1512)
Try this: ► Mesoamerican Codex Books
Left-Handed People Day
AUGUST 15
Relaxation Day
Try this: ► Make Bath Salts
AUGUST 16
Joke Day
Roller Coaster Day
Try this: ► Make an amusement park with art tape!
Klondike Gold Discovery, 1896
Try this: ► Pot of Gold Craft
AUGUST 17
Archeology Day
Try this: ► Cave Art Craft
Try this: ► Make Prehistoric Paint
Try this: ► Read about Minoan Pottery
Try this: ►Greek Pottery Designs
Try this: ► Greek Story Vases
AUGUST 19
National Aviation Day
Try this: ► Ten Transportation Activities for Kids
Try this: ► Look at these airplanes made of shampoo bottles
AUGUST 20
Vitus Bering discovered Alaska on this day in 1741
AUGUST 21
The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in France on this day in 1911.
AUGUST 22
Be an Angel Day
Try this: ► Angelic Child Craft
Try this: ► Triangle Angel Craft
Newspaper editor Ann Franklin’s birthday, 1762
Try this: ► Create a classroom newspaper
AUGUST 23
1st National Women’s Rights Convention, 1850
AUGUST 24
Mount Vesuvius Erupted (79 AD)
Try this: ► Make a Bean Mosaic
Try this: ► Make a Pumpkin Seed Mosaic
Try this: ► Make a Magazine Mosaic
Try this: ► Magazine Mosaic Pot
Try this: ►Paper Mosaic Hearts
Try this: ►Faux Mosaic Candle Craft
Try this: ► Glass Mosaic Stepping Stones
Try this: ► Sand Mosaics
AUGUST 25
National Park Service Established (1916)
Try this: ►Nature Art Activities for Kids
Try this: ► Camp Crafts
AUGUST 26
19th Amendment, Women’s Right to Vote, 1920
AUGUST 27
First commercial oil well drilled, 1859
AUGUST 28
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech (1963)
Try this: ► Make a Box of Crayons to Celebrate!
AUGUST 30
Toasted Marshmallow Day
Try this: ► Make a marshmallow sculpture
Try this: ► Make a marshmallow bunny
Try this: ► Make chocolate marshmallow dip sticks
AUGUST 31
Educator Maria Montessori’s Birthday, 1870
CELEBRATE ALL MONTH
AUGUST is…
Science and Technology Month
Try this: ► Art and Science Activities
American Artist Appreciation Month
Try this: ► Artists/Art History Lessons
Foot Health Month
Catfish Month
Golf Month
Inventors Month
Water Quality Month
The 1st WEEK of AUGUST Is…
Clown Week
Try this: ► Clowning Around
The 2nd WEEK of AUGUST Is…
Smile Week
The FIRST SATURDAY of AUGUST Is…
National Mustard Day
The FIRST SUNDAY of AUGUST Is…
American Family Day
Friendship Day
Try this: ► Make a Craft with Your Friends
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