With Easter coming up in a couple days, we created these simple Easter egg cards using things we had on hand – magazines! Today’s post is another in 60 Days Junk Play series and you’re welcome to see other #junkplay ideas both ours and created by number of other kid-friendly bloggers. You will need to…
Spring Accordion Wreath with Kid’s Artwork
Do you pile up heaps of your kid’s paintings, drawings and other artwork? Do you upcycle them in some way? Today we share how we used several paintings created by my daughters to create this colorful and cheerful Spring accordion wreath to welcome Spring and decorate our doors! Yesterday we played and learned with calendar…
Tin Foil Bangles
My daughters love to dress up, both toddler and older. For today’s play, we created shiny tin foil bangles using things either from our recycle bin or things we had on hand. In case you want to recreate these, keep in mind that you can reuse aluminium foil – simply wash it and put aside…
Simple Egg Carton Spring Flower Garden
Plant your Spring flower garden and enjoying the better weather as Spring approaches! This activity combines a bit of art (painting flowers) and fine motor skill practice as toddlers “plant” their flowers. You surely have some empty cardboard egg cartons around? Right? Then join us in today’s #junkplay and create this easy to make Spring…
Recycled Stick Puppets
It’s awesome that you can make stick puppets almost from everything! For today’s #junkplay activity, we recycled some of the greeting and birthday cards we had received previous years. This “light” activity for kids is instantly gratifying – they get to play with something they make in only couple minutes and without any money spent…
Cellophane Paper Poppies
Poppies are one of our favorite flowers, so delicate and beautiful. We created poppies using materials from recycle bin like cellophane paper and egg cartons, combining a bit of painting, crafting and fine motor practice as kids put them together. Take a look at instructions and make couple cellophane paper poppies with kids to decorate…
Simple Felt Board with Storage
Today we’ll share how to make simplest possible felt board with storage. It took me under 5 minutes to put it together, and that’s including the time I needed to gather supplies around the house! I know it’s hard to believe, but somehow it happen that we don’t have a single cardboard box when needed! Today’s…
Bubble Wrap Easter Egg Painting
For today, we decided to try something different than usual (for us!) and use bubble wrap for painting! We created bubble wrap Easter egg paintings! With upcoming Easter, this is such an easy painting idea both my 3-year-old toddler and my 7-year-old enjoyed! My kids adore playing with bubble wrap and we used it before…
Watercolor Crayon Resist Painting
One of the most interesting things about crayon resist painting with toddlers is that you can surprise them with images popping up from, what appears to be, an empty page! Today we painted using watercolors over crayon resist images, mostly spring and Easter themed, like flowers, eggs, and, of course, we had to add some…
15 Junk Play Ideas from Recycle Bin
Today we’ll show you 15 junk play ideas with following materials: plastic grocery bags, advertising / promotional magnets, books, cereal boxes, plastic bottles and packing peanuts. On March 1st we started with 60 Day Junk Play Challenge along with 35 other kid friendly bloggers where we pull out different material each day from our recycle…