Oh Crafts has a really simple way to turn a bedroom ceiling into a cloud-filled sky. Your children can help form the cloud shapes they'd like to watch and see.
Martha Stewart has a great idea for pop-up sponges, but unfortunately doesn't provide a template. Luckily there's a ton of stencil sites with templates online. You can also have kids create and cut their own designs using flat sponge material.
Home Chemistry has a great video showing you how to make a lava lamp. The most difficult item to find is the LED push light, but everything else is very easy to obtain.
Frugal Family Fun Blog shows how to make nifty do it yourself scratch art boards. Kids will have fun designing the hidden colors, hiding their colors and scratching off the paint to make fun designs.
All for the boys had a fantastic "interview" you can give your kids every year. This is a great idea for their scrapbooks because you can see how their answers change and don't change every year. You can also use the template as questions and record their answers in addition to the paper version.
Good for ages 2 and up.
Click the image for the template.
Thirty handmade days has an interview template that covers the past year and the next.
Creative Jewish Mom has a great tutorial on how to make colorful paper beads out of magazine pages. This makes for a great, easy activity and your kids will love their finished result.
Enjoy these super easy way for kids to make foam stamps in several shapes and sizes.
Make It:
Vanessa's Values has the easiest stamper idea ever. All you need is foam stickers and bottle caps. You just stick the stickers on the top of the caps and there you go. Kids love stamping and this will give the lots of options and designs.
