Five Crafty Recipes and Easy Tutorials for Summer Fun with Your Kids

Another favorite pastime at our house is to drag out the recycling bin and a spellbinding array of tape and hot glue, and make something crazy. If you live near any kind of water source (and yes, the wading pool counts!), then check out this recycled pontoon boat idea from Green Kid Crafts. After all the tin can robots and cardboard cats and toilet paper roll castles that my girlies have made, they were thrilled to make something that really worked!