Kids’ imaginations will soar with this adorable seagull headband craft! They’ll love creating a feathered friend to wear while exploring seaside creatures or just adding some sunshine to their day. This little gull will steal the show as a fun addition to beach week, summer storytime, or an ocean animals unit!
Your little gulls will have fun showing off their new wearable craft! Once you’re done, be sure to swoop through more summer crafts for kids to keep the creativity soaring.
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Beach Animal Headband Craft
This headband craft starts with a few simple supplies, some cutting and gluing, and ends with a squawking cute seagull to wear! Children will enjoy using their feathery friends on their new imaginative adventures.
While they snip and assemble, little ones are building their fine motor skills, scissor skills, and learning to follow directions while creating something new.
It’s hands-on learning with a splash of summer fun using their imaginations.
Use our seagull template to guide the fun and make prep a breeze. Just download and print our free template and gather some basic supplies to get started. This project is sure to earn some cheerful squawks of approval!
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Tape
- Seagull Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Download the eagle template, print, and cut out the pieces you need. Start by grabbing the eyes and placing them on the seagull’s face. Use a glue stick to secure them down. Press gently to make sure they stay in place.
Now it’s time for the beak! Grab the bright orange piece and help your child line it up in the center, just under the eyes. This simple step adds so much charm. Apply glue and press it down firmly.
Let’s get the headband to fit! Take one of the white extender strips and attach it to the side of the seagull base. You can use glue, tape, or even a stapler—whatever you’re comfy with. This gives the band enough length to wrap around your child’s head.
Repeat the same step on the other side with the second extender. Once both sides are attached, wrap the headband around your child’s head to find the best fit, then secure it at the back.
Don’t you just love how this seagull headband turned out? It’s the perfect mix of cute and creative! Be sure to check out some of our other favorite headband crafts for kids while you’re here!
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.
Summer Break Crafts
Mermaid Paper Craft – Kids will love using colorful paper to create mermaid tails and flowing hair with this mermaid craft that’s sure to make a splash. It’s a fin-tastic way to boost creativity and fine motor fun. Use our free template to dive right in and start making some mermaid magic!
Pineapple Handprint Craft – Say aloha to this fruity project where kids will turn their handprints into the spiky crown of a cheerful pineapple. It’s a sweet way to celebrate summer and get hands-on with creativity. Grab some supplies and get tropical making a keepsake kids will love to make.
Sun Paper Plate Craft – Brighten up the day with this happy sunshine! Even toddlers can help make their own cheerful little sun with a big smile. It’s a sunny way for preschool and kindergarten kids to shine while practicing scissor skills, boosting creativity, and soaking up some hands-on fun!
Pirate Ship Craft – Ahoy, creative captains! Kids will love building a paper pirate ship that’s ready to sail the seven seas. They’ll create a seaworthy vessel ready for epic adventures with just a few snips and some glue. It’s lots of fun for every little buccaneer chasing treasure or battling imaginary sea creatures!
Free Summer Activity Printables
Looking for a splash of fun while helping kids master their scissors? These octopus cutting activity pages are filled with wiggly arms and an ocean of learning.
The worksheets will keep little ones entertained as they cut, match, and count their way through each page.
They’re a great way to work on fine motor skills and hand strength when doing an ocean themed lesson or just to keep little ones occupied this summer. So be sure to print them out and grab the scissors!
Kids can soak up some sunny learning with these playful summer worksheets! After running through sprinklers or building sandcastles, kids can cool down with activities that sneak in skill building while keeping with the summer theme.
These pages are bursting with seasonal charm when they trace the letter S, solve a sizzling summer maze, and finish patterns with popsicles and sunshine. Print them out, grab some crayons or pencils, and let the summertime learning begin — no sunscreen required!
These summer connect the dots worksheets are just the thing to beat summer boredom! There’s cheerful crabs to tasty watermelon slices that kids will love revealing as they count their way through the dots.
The pages have varying difficulty levels, so there’s a dot to dot picture for everyone whether your little one is just starting to count or ready to count all the way up to 62!
Once the picture’s complete, it’s time to grab the crayons and bring each summer scene to life with color!
Bring the sunshine into story time with this easy to prep summer printable book! There’s two versions included so you can match each mini book to your kids’ reading levels.
These emergent readers are great for sparking conversations about sunny days, beach fun, and popsicles galore. Keep little minds learning and chatting with these preschool and kindergarten summer activities.
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Seagull Headband Craft
Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Tape
- Seagull Template
Instructions
- Download the template, print it, and cut out the pieces you need.
- Begin by gluing the eyes onto the seagull’s face.
- Then, glue the beak just below the eyes, centered on the face.
- Next, attach one headband extender to the left side of the headband base.
- After that, attach the second headband extender to the right side of the headband base.
- Finish by wrapping the headband around the child’s head and securing the ends together for a proper fit.
Free Seagull Headband Craft Template
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