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KIDS KORNER
How many times have
you heard "mom, I'm bored - what can I do?" I've got the answers
to their questions! We've come up with a great list of crafts and
activities that the kids can do to either keep them out of your hair or work on
as a project all together. Most of these crafts will cost you nothing but
your love, time and a few odd things around the house! Make a mosaic of colored stones or small pebbles. Mix together 3/4 cup water, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 1/2 cups salt, 1 Tbs of vegetable oil and food coloring. Roll it out to desired thickness then cut into circles with the top of a glass. Add the stones or pebbles then bake in the oven at 250* for 20 minutes. Let cool. Have kids make a mini scrapbook or just a page. Let them choose a special event (birthday, Christmas, vacation etc), give them photos of that event and let them have fun with ribbons, stickers, markers etc. Have a fire and roast marshmallows! Make a scavenger hunt in their sandbox. Make colorful snowmen and snow forts! Take a spray bottle of water and add a few drops of food coloring to the bottle. Then you can spray the snowballs or bricks different colors. Try spraying the bottom of their boots too, to see colorful footprints in the snow. Make a snowglobe. Even if it's not winter time, you can still make this great toy! All you need is a jar, plastic figurine, white glitter and distilled water. Glue your figurine to the inside of the cover of the jar. Let it dry for a few hours then fill the jar with the water and glitter and screw the cap on tight.
Make outdoor winter ornaments. Pour water into baking molds and add leaves, flowers or food coloring. Put in the freezer or outside and when the water is getting slushy, poke a straw in for a hole. Once it's completely frozen, take out of the mold and add a string to hang it! Make your own tic tac toe game. Take some construction paper or some felt to make the board then use an old egg carton to make your own characters to play with. Go fly a kite. You can even make your own if you have the time. Make your kids their own body paint! They'll love this and so will you. Mix together some food coloring and some crisco. Kool-aid and yogurt make great finger paint. Great for the little ones incase they get some in their mouth. Use a slinky to hold their cd's together. Slinky's come in all sorts of colors. You can use kool-aid to tie-dye t-shirts. Put a few rubberbands around some sections on a t-shirt and let it sit in the kool-aid for a little bit. (we all know how good kool-aid can stain!) Paint stones! Paint shells that a hermit crab can live it. If you have a hermit crab, make sure you coat the shell with some clear nail polish before you give it to the crab. Or just let the kids paint shells for fun. What girl doesn't love a new purse? A purse is easy to make with an old pair of pants or shorts. Just cut about 1" below the crotch, turn them inside out and sew them up! Turn them back out and loop a cotton belt through the belt loops! Let the kids make some chapstick of their own in their favorite flavor. All you need is some crisco and some jello. Mix about 1-2 T of crisco to 1 tsp of your favorite jello flavor. Heat them up in the microwave then let them harden in a little container. Make your own playdough, it's a whole lot cheaper! Make an easy pillow: Cut 2 squares of felt and a design or shape out of felt in a contrasting color. Stitch the two like colors together over top some batting or a pillow form. Then stitch on your design. Another great idea is to take a photo of each child and print it out on transfer paper. Then you can iron the photo to the pillow. Paint rocks to look like fish. This is a great "pet" for the kids who don't have pets. Add feathers to the back for a "tail" and then give them googly eyes! |
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