4 Easy Torn Paper Crafts for Summer

I'm a big fan of torn paper crafts because… they are so dang easy! I'm sharing 4 different ideas today with three different methods that you can use as soon as TOMORROW. All you need is construction paper, glue and something to write with.

I usually set these up a few different ways. For older students, they can write words on the small pieces of paper for speech sounds, vocabulary, parts of speech, etc. before gluing them on the paper. For my smaller friends, I might write the word for them. OR I might just hold all the paper and students ‘earn' a piece or pieces by taking a practice turn. All of these methods have worked great for me, just depends on your students.

This first one is a sandcastle, which I actually blogged about a long time ago, and it's one of my favorites! These can become any shape you want, just start tearing and see where it goes. I also like to add a little color piece of paper to make a ‘flag' for the top! This one pairs great with “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell” by Lucille Colandro as a follow up activity.

Next is a fire, which can go great with camping themes and I've also used it for fire safety week in October. For this one, I just cut long strips of brown, orange, yellow, and red construction paper and used a black sheet as the background. Glue the two brown strips crisscrossed as ‘logs' and then tear the red/yellow/orange paper to make the flames.

Another way you could do it is to draw a simple shape on a piece of paper and then fill it with the torn pieces. For this one, I drew the sun and rays, then added the yellow tears on top.

The last way is to use a piece of clipart or a picture and glue on top of it! This swimsuit activity is from my Summer Toolkit (which also has swim trunks), so the kids can just tear pieces to create a design on their suit with whatever colors you have around. This is also why I like to keep scrap construction paper, it works great for these crafts!

That's a few fun ideas for using easy paper crafts in speech therapy this summer! They are quick and the kids always like making them…plus it gives them something to take home and TALK about 🙂