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DIY Dyed Epsom Salt Sensory Material
Dyed Epsom salts are a cheap, easy, and fun sensory material for preschoolers.
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20 Cat Toys and Enrichment Items from Eco-Friendly Materials
Cat enrichment is so important to the physical and emotional well-being of your cats. Don’t let your tiny hunters suffer from boredom; instead, check out this list of my favorite cat enrichment items below, and make your best friend their new favorite toy!
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Three Dozen DIY Building Block Crafts
There are so many ways to create your own building block sets, so many ways to embellish old or thrifted block sets to make them playable in an all-new way, and so many ways to upcycle blocks so that you can enjoy them in brand-new ways.
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New Toys from Old Toys: Painted Building Blocks
Whether you’re refurbishing a kid’s hand-me-down building blocks for a new generation, or adding new interest to a current toy, painting building blocks is an excellent way to turn an old toy into something brand-new and exciting.
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How to Clean and Refurbish Old Wooden Building Blocks
Here’s how to deep clean wooden building blocks and simple wooden toys, how to refurbish them, and even how to polish them up so they look beautiful and fancy and like the high-quality heirlooms that they are.
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How to Make a Corrugated Cardboard Cat Scratcher: Two Tutorials!
Corrugated cardboard, sliced and stacked edges out, has a texture that cats adore, and they really will use them, play with them, and sharpen their claws on them!
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Two Dozen Hand Puppets That You Can Make
Kids LOVE puppets, and hand puppets are one of the best ways to keep them entertained on a rainy day.
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How to Make a Fairy Garden
A fairy garden is easy to make, and nope, it actually doesn’t require any of those porcelain or plastic store-bought fairy garden accessories.
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How to Make Clear Slime
To make clear slime, I consulted my own resident slime-making expert.
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50 Crafty And Eco-Friendly Kids’ Activities
It can be challenging to maintain an eco-friendly lifestyle when you have kids.
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26 Eco-Friendly Things to DIY For Your Dog
Do you, also, have a hankering to craft for your furbaby?
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How to Make a Chalkboard Easter Egg
This is one of the easiest Easter egg crafts that you can make, and one of the longest-lasting, too!
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How-to: Woodburned Easter Eggs with Watercolor Stain
One of the easiest ways to have a beautiful stash of heirloom Easter eggs is to buy wooden eggs and then embellish them.
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32 Nature Crafts for Autumn
Nature’s bounty is always extra generous in the fall. Make the most of it with these kid-friendly nature crafts for autumn!
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Reader Questions Answered: Can You Waterproof Liquid Watercolor Wood Stain?
You can stain or paint your children’s toys so that they’re bright and vibrant, but then you’re going to need to seal that wood stain or paint using a clear polyurethane sealant.
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From Gross Toy to Great Toy: How We Refinished This Thrifted Wooden Shield
Some things you just cannot pass by, such as a great toy hiding underneath a gross one.
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Tutorial: DIY Magnetic Mosaic Kit
Do you ever have one of those moments when you look at something store-bought and think, “Hey, I could make that!”
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16 Great Nature Crafts for Summer
Have you and your kids hit a summer crafting slump? Get outside and get crafting with these great nature crafts for summer!
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Minecraft Party Games: Spawn Egg Hunt (with Spawn Egg Cascarones!)
The kids and I made this Spawn egg hunt game entirely with the supplies that we had on hand, using not only mostly natural or recycled materials but also materials that would easily compost back into our yard (no clean-up necessary!!!).
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Make DIY Puzzle Blocks from Ordinary Building Blocks
If you want to do something a little special with some of your building blocks, check out how I made these puzzle blocks, and try it for yourself.
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15 DIY Building Block Sets to Build or Embellish
Create a brand-new DIY building block set for your kid from scratch or embellish and personalize a set of blocks that you already own!
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Make Outdoor Building Blocks from Upcycled Wooden Pallets
Make your kiddos a set of outdoor building blocks, using nothing more than the ubiquitous wooden pallet.
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Make a Play Blender for Your Kid’s DIY Play Kitchen
Turn an old coffee container into a DIY play blender for your kid’s play kitchen. Then kick back, and watch the pretend play unfold!
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15 Fairy Garden Decorations that You Can Make
While the fairies could make all the following projects themselves, why don’t you help them out and add a couple to your own fairy garden?
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Firefly Craft: Build A Recycled Firefly Hotel
Catching fireflies is something we all do as kids. But we can both admire and respect these creatures without harming them. So let’s make a firefly craft!
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Ocean in a Bottle: Witness my Epic Pinterest Fail!
Muddy water with oil on top. Huh.
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The Only Play Dough Recipe that You’ll Ever Need
The one play dough recipe that I always keep coming back to. This is the recipe I’ve been making for my kids for a full decade now.
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Let Your Kids Paint with Their Christmas Tree: Tree Branch Paintbrushes
Here’s how the kids turn their Christmas tree into these tree branch paintbrushes.
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Spotted: Coconut Chia Seed Pudding, and 8 other Uses for Chia Seeds
Not only are chia seeds great for you, and easy to incorporate into tons of healthy, delicious recipes, but their ability to sprout and grow in the blink of an eye, in less than ideal circumstances, makes them a lot of fun for you and the kids to play with, too.
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Spotted: Grape and Toothpick Sculptures + 7 More Ways to Play with Food
Check out these grape and toothpick sculptures from The Artful Parent!
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How-to: Bendy Yarn from Natural Ingredients
You can sculpt with them, pose them on any surface, and they’re re-usable, so when you’re done just unstick and unbend them and put them away for next time.
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Spotted: 4th of July Waldorf Window Star
Frontier Dreams uses the same kite paper and origami folding techniques of traditional Waldorf window stars to make these themed 4th of July ones.
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Spotted: Recycled Chalkboard DIY Toys
Turn bottles and canisters from your recycle bin into DIY toys for your children!
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