Pirates set sail with maps in hand to find treasure filled with sparkling jewels and shiny gold. Your little buccaneers will be excited to have their own treasure hunt right at home with this pirate chest craft.

Gather your young swashbucklers to get started on this project they can make themselves! It’s a great way to ignite their imagination and provide a prop for their pirate imaginative play.

To keep the adventure going all season long, find even more exciting summer crafts for kids to go along with their pirate treasure.

Pirate Treasure Chest Craft Idea

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Plus, making this treasure chest helps kids develop fine motor skills, boosts creativity, and provides a wonderful opportunity for some screen-free time.

Set sail on this pirate adventure by downloading our free template and gather a few basic supplies like colored paper, scissors, glue, and markers. Grab your crew and get ready to set sail on a summer full of creativity and learning.

Supplies

• Colored cardstock or construction paper
• Glue stick
• Scissors
• Pirate chest template (click the “click here to get this freebie” image at the end to open the form)

Directions

Start by downloading the pirate chest template and printing it out. Once you have the template printed, gather the materials needed for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this project to life!

First, guide your child to glue the front pieces to the top of the chest.

Next, glue the front pieces to the bottom of the chest.

Now, help your child place the straps on the bottom of the chest and glue them in place.

Position the lock in the center of the bottom piece of the chest and glue it in place.

Next, glue the gold coins above the lock, in the dark brown part of the chest.

Now color the gems and glue them on top of the gold coins.

Finally, encourage your child to glue the top part of the chest over the upper part of the coins.

Be sure to check out our pirate crafts while you’re here! Your kids will love creating more fun DIYs like this one!

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Ideas For Summer

The treasure hunt for fun doesn’t have to end here – we have a whole treasure trove of summer ideas to keep your kiddos engaged and learning. Check out our collection of projects and activities that are perfect for summer days.

Find imaginative creations to educational adventures that will appeal to all sorts of interests. Read on below for some book recommendations and hands-on activities that will make this summer a real splash with your little ones! 

Summer Books For Kids

How To Catch A Mermaid is the summer version of the classic “How To Catch” series! It’s perfect for mermaid fans and summer lovers alike!

Gorilla Loves Vanilla is all about, you guessed it – ice cream! This silly book will have kids laughing and asking for you to read it again and again.

Goodnight Pirate is a fun bedtime book to read to kids all summer long! They’ll love the illustrations, story, and rhyming words.

Fun Summer Crafts

Pirate Ship Craft – Kids can set sail on their pirate ship with the help of our free template! It’s a fun project that’s easy to create and will spark lots of imaginative play. Download the template and let you little buccaneers begin!

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Mermaid Headband Craft – Let your little ones become underwater royalty with a mermaid crown! Our easy-to-follow template will help them create a dazzling crown adorned how they like with jewels, glitter, or stickers.

Torn Paper Crab Craft – For some clawsome fun, kids can tear and glue paper onto our crab template to create a unique, textured masterpiece. It’s a great way to enhance fine motor skills while having a blast.

Pirate Gnome Craft – Dress up your gnomes with pirate hats, eye patches, and treasure with this fun activity. It’ll spark creativity and imaginative play with your little buccaneers. Download the template for their voyage to fun.

Summer Activities Printables

Ahoy, there! Looking for a no prep activity to keep your little pirates learning this summer? Our pirate worksheets are just what you need! They cover handwriting practice, pattern recognition, graphing, counting, and beginning sounds.

These printables are ideal for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten children. You’ll find 24 pages of fun, including counting mats, a memory game, and connect the dots that will keep your kids engaged and educated all year long.

These summer color by number printables are an easy and no prep way to keep the kids entertained while secretly working on their educational skills. Each page features a key at the bottom for easy coloring.

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If your child can’t read the words yet, color in the crayons so they know which one to use for that number. This activity enhances fine motor skills and number recognition while creating pieces of art. Inside this fun bundle, you’ll find pages with summery illustrations from a beach ball to a watermelon.

You’ll be tickled pink when you kiddos master the letter F with these flamingo worksheets. The flamingo handwriting practice sheet helps kids trace both uppercase and lowercase ‘Ff’s and the word ‘flamingo,’ to boost their writing confidence and fine motor skills.

Next, test their knowledge with our ‘label the flamingo’ sheet to enhance their vocabulary and critical thinking. Finally, they can navigate the letter maze for a fun challenge that sharpens problem solving skills and teaches directions like up, down, left, and right.

Summer is the perfect time to boost crucial fine motor skills that are needed for future tasks like writing, drawing, and dressing independently. This set of summer fine motor activities is packed with fun and learning with various summer themed printables.

Kids can enjoy learning through cutting, tracing, coloring, and more. Each page provides new learning benefits, from better handwriting and smoother drawing to improved focus and problem solving skills. Watch your child gain control, coordination, and confidence—all wrapped in a summery package!

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