Want to make something cool and crafty with your kids while also teaching them valuable STEM skills? DIY projects are the perfect way to share this learning experience with children, complete with hands on activities
Awesome craft projects, DIY ideas, and seasonal decoration inspiration for the Pagan sabbat of Ostara and the Spring Equinox.
These coffee filter flowers are SO PRETTY! This simple craft is beautiful enough for adults, but easy enough that kids can make them too. They make beautiful party decorations and are also a great gift idea for teachers or Mother's Day. Easy Coffee Filter Flowers It's hard to believe these flowers are made out of coffee filters! For pennies you can make a beautiful flower bouquet that won't wilt or fade. Best of all, these coffee filter flowers are SO EASY to make. They're made from simple supplies (coffee filters painted with liquid watercolor paint and tied together with a
Want to learn how to make oobleck (goop)? This 2 ingredient oobleck recipe is so easy and so much fun for kids! Easy homemade STEM activity for kids!
The coolest slime ever! Find out how to make slime with baking soda and vinegar for an awesome fizzing slime volcano.
30 Slime Recipes - 30 Slime Recipes you Must Try. There are edible recipes, standard recipes, glitter recipes, and recipes filled with fun little toys.
Crafts for the Olympics, Food for the Olympics, and Activities to celebrate the Olympics.
Lifestyle blog showcasing craft tutorials, holiday fun, party planning, recipes, DIY projects, travel tips, and more. Easy & inexpensive family fun.
Free Jellyfish art tutorial for kids and adults! This stunning jelly can be recreated with a few watercolors and a bit of clear glue. This mixed media art project creates lots of interesting textures and designs that are sure to delight your students.
Find out how to make slime with my favorite slime recipe ever! Bonus, change one ingredient and you have fluffy slime to play with!
Kinetic Slime Recipe that holds shapes, Kinetic Slime DIY , a perfect slime for cookie cutters, use over and over for tons of fun!
Creative ways to mend jeans - some of these are really pretty!
DIY Watermelon God's Eye Weaving for Kids. How to make god's eye. God's Eye weaving for kids. Summer God's Eye patterns. DIY Watermelon Craft for kids.
Make your own cornstarch mud for hands-on sensory play indoors or outdoors. Fun magic mud recipe kids are sure to love!
Oh how kids go crazy for suncatcher crafts! This super cool suncatcher project is especially neat because it looks just like stained glass. And I love that it can be adapted for a wide variety of ages. Follow our Craft for Kids Pinterest board! Kids just love making suncatchers! There’s just something super exciting about seeing …
This summer keep your girls busy with this amazing list of 25 summer activities for girls of all ages--includes both indoor and outdoor activities.
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Easy homemade flubber recipe for kids, which uses only a few commonly found household ingredients. Great fun and an interesting texture to play with.
Alright all you candy lovers out there, today we’re making GUMMY BEARS!! I decided it was high time I ventured into candy making and couldn’t think of a better way to start than with one of my favorite childhood treats! These little dudes are even better than the store bought kind though, ’cause I gave …
DIY Summer Break Survival Kit
The process of making play materials at home is fun and educational , and kids really enjoy playing with materials that they made the...
Fun things to do when you're bored and stuck at home. DIY indoor craft ideas, easy recipes, kids activities and boredom busters.
You will be sure to catch the Aloha spirit with these super fun Hawaiian crafts and activities for kids! Mahalo!
Make this super soft, no cook, cloud dough recipe! Only 2 ingredients - cornstarch and lotion. This homemade dough is really easy to make!
Use this super quick DIY window paint recipe to create some art on the windows. The bonus is that it is very easy to wash off again when they are finished!
This easy, healthy homemade graham cracker recipe is perfect for eating plain, making s’mores, and for graham cracker crust recipes! Make this recipe with einkorn flour or any wheat!
Print out this FREE Summer Reading Log Passport Printable so kids can track their summer reading goals and document reading progress!
Puffy paint provides hours of fun for kids of any age. In case it's new to you, this paint has texture that dries puffy and foamy to the touch. Your kids will love it!
This Picasso inspired art project is a wonderful introduction to Cubism for the kids. This is great for an individual or a collaborative project.
Learn how to make pretend snow with only 2 simple ingredients. The perfect winter sensory play idea.
Easy to make window clings, a fun craft to make with the kids for any season or holiday.
Baking soda play dough is an allergy-friendly alternative to traditional recipes
Take your homemade playdough to a whole new level of FUN with this amazing Color Changing Playdough recipe. Fun for kids of all ages!
Who's ready to kick off this new year with a whole lotta love, color and bright, fun lessons? BUT who's also not done any real thinkin' about said lessons?! If you said ME to both of those questions than I gotta tell ya, YOU AND ME BOTH. Luckily, I've done a whole lotta love lessons over the years and put all 21 of 'em right here in this blog post. If you follow the links to these, you'll find videos for most and lesson details for ll of them. Have fun creating! Learn how to draw each of these cuties in these how to draw videos, found here! Kindergarten tried their hand at printing with this project and had such a blast! These relief hearts by kindergarten were a hit and definitely a lesson I hope to repeat soon! Of course, you can't celebrate all things love and Valentines-y without sharing the work of Chris Uphues with your students! We've done a couple lessons inspired by him. This one is a collage and printing project. This lesson has always been a hit on my blog with other art teachers and my students. In fact, I created this lesson as a sub plan so it's been a hit with my subs too! You can find all the details and video here. My students created this HUGE collaborative mural inspired buy Britto. Lesson video here! First grade created these huge Britto-inspired hearts with bingo daubers, bleeding tissue paper and paint sticks. Lesson details here. Ready to tackle printmaking with your students? Here's a lesson I've done a couple of years now with my second graders: Robert Indiana-inspired LOVE prints! I created these hearts with wings with foil, Celluclay and plaster strips! They are super simple to make. More here. Inspired by those hearts, I created a lesson for my second graders to make these! A couple of years ago, I did a professional development with the faculty and staff at my school. We created these My Heart Has Wings sculptures. Details here. Here was a fun lesson where we were able to use our messy mats as apart of our masterpiece! Not only that but this project provided two heart-tastic pieces for the price of one. These... And these! If you are looking to have your students create a large collaborative piece, you can see what each grade level worked on to make this piece here. Looking for a quick lesson that introduces students to three contemporary artists who used love and hearts as their theme? Check out this blog post with a video lesson! James Rizzi is always a fun artist to share with your students. We loved creating these love birds! Here's another lesson we do just about every year in first grade: these woven and stitched hearts! All the lesson details can be found here. I created a variation of this lesson recently where students weave together strips of paper in their skin tones. You can find it here. These candy hearts were created by my fourth graders and we used plaster strips to create them. It was so fun to see these all come together and display them in a large candy heart box! Lesson details here. Early finishers of the candy hearts lesson moved onto this project when they were finished! Wow, did the third graders have a blast with this one! We made plaster chocolates that looked good enough to eat! All the lesson details here. Need a quick lesson with a contemporary artist inspiration? Try this JGoldcrown lesson on for size!
Free Printable Summer Banner Flags. DIY Easy Summer decor for an indoor or outdoor party, barbecue, or last day of school party.