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5th
Sep 2012

Children’s Activity 102: Kitchen Trace

An Arts and Crafts Activity

Your kitchen is a wonderful source of objects that can be traced and transformed into fanciful works of art.

Materials Required:

  • Paper
  • Pens, pencils, or markers
  • Kitchen containers and utensils 

Instructions:
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31st
Aug 2012

Children’s Activity 101: Kitchen Finery

An Arts and Crafts Activity

Ready for a surprise? Your pantry is chock-full of good stuff for making jewelry. Here are a few suggestions.

Materials Required:

  • String, yarn
  • Pasta

Optional Materials:

  • Food coloring

Instructions:

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20th
Aug 2012

Children’s Activity 93: Judy’s Clay

An Arts and Crafts Activity

This recipe for homemade clay allows you to “fire” any objects your children make in your kitchen stove.

Materials Required:

  • Flour
  • Salt
  • Water
  • Poster or tempera paints

Optional Materials:

  • Cookie cutters
  • Plastic container

Instructions:
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26th
Jul 2012

Children’s Activity 77: Household Factory

An Arts and Crafts Activity

Manufacturing machinery can be fascinating for kids and adults alike. With this activity, your child can pretend that he or she is stamping out widgets (whatever those are), toys, or common household objects.

Materials Required:

  • Large cardboard box
  • Tape
  • Paper towel and toilet paper tubes
  • Crayons or markers
  • Dashboard items – Bottle caps, plastic container lids etc
  • Toys, stuffed animals, household props

Instructions:

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19th
Jul 2012

Children’s Activity 72: Homemade Dashboards

An Arts and Crafts Activity

Extracting our son from the driver’s seat of our car proved to be one of the greatest parenting challenges we had ever faced. Life became easier when we gave him his own dashboard.

Materials Required:

  • Cardboard box
  • Plastic container lids
  • Bottle caps
  • Brads
  • Crayons and markers
  • Cardboard tubes

Instructions:

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16th
Jul 2012

Children’s Activity 70: Hollow Eggs

An Arts and Crafts Activity

Once upon a time, the name Faberge meant a little more than cologne; it was the name of the man who perfected the decoration of hollow eggs with precious trappings like diamonds and gold.

Materials Required:

  • Eggs
  • Bowl
  • Watercolors
  • Felt-tip markers
  • Macaroni, barley

Instructions:

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25th
Jun 2012

Children’s Activity 55: Giant Theme Books

An Arts and Crafts Activity

Giant Theme Books are big scrapbooks filled with pictures of cars, airplanes, animals, people, and anything else that strikes your child’s fancy.

Materials Required:

  • Magazine pictures
  • Large sheets of stiff paper
  • Tape or nontoxic glue
  • String

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