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…
Cereal Box Rainbow Purse
This very easy DIY toy project is awesome because even toddlers can participate with marbling part of creating a cereal box rainbow purse. And, of course, they will love to carry around and play with a purse they created themselves! My daughter placed her Boots inside the moment it was done! Do you recycle or…
Nail Polish Drip Jar Decoration
Today’s junk play prompt was to use baby food jar somehow with kids and turn it into a playtime. Since we are all girls here, we decided to use girly medium to paint and decorate over glass baby jar. This is really simple craft project and you can do it with toddlers and older kids,…
EASY WASHI TAPE MAGNET MAKE OVER
For today’s junk play prompt – turning promotional magnets into play, we decided to go with simple activity with washi tape. Mostly because washi tape is something even little hands can easily tear. Have you already joined our 60 Days Junk Play Challenge? If you’re new around here, check for details here and join us!…
Plastic Bag Shamrock Suncatcher
Inspired by St.Patrick’s day and one of it’s symbols, we decided to add a little luck to our lives and craft shamrock suncatcher from a plastic bag and other things we found at home. With today’s activity we are calling for Spring to come sooner and hopefully, luck will serve us! Materials for crafting plastic…
Wool Sheep Stick Puppet
My kids adore to sing Baa Baa Black Sheep nursery rhyme! Yours too? These wool sheep stick puppets are really easy to create in under 5 minutes! We hope you will create several with or for your kids to play and sing! One of our favorite ways to play is when we can sing a…
Gummy and Cork Process Art Painting
After painting pasta yesterday, and seeing how much kids enjoyed it, I decided to do another painting session with them, this time, we have changed up our painting tools a little bit and made gummy and cork process art painting! Today’s challenge for a sensory play was to use kitchen cupboard items and it brought…