Autumn — colorful foliage, spicy aromas, warm apple cider, and sensory heaven! On this cold winter afternoon (not here, but still), let’s adventure back in time to a beautiful fall day and create a tree — cork and spatula style! Dig into your utensil drawer and pull out a spatula, slotted spoon, old corks, and let’s paint! Continue reading
Meet Scrat Pine Cone, the acorn-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel from the Ice-Age. He also stars in our favorite movie, Ice Age, The Meltdown. He is the second character in our recycled pine cone craft series. Yesterday we created Mr. Royal Penguin Pine Cone. Pine cone crafts for kids and adults are easy, fun, and make great gifts! Continue reading
Meet Mr. Royal Penguin the pine cone. Pine cones are one my favorite nature finds to recycle. There are so many neat and interesting things you can create with them. After collecting a bunch yesterday, we’re ready to get creative! He is the first in our pine cone craft for kids series. This is a fun fall craft for a parent and child. Continue reading
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RAWR!! Does your child love dinosaurs? With C’s obsession with dinosaurs, I’m always trying to create new ways to explore dinosaur play and this was defiantly rip-roarin’ fun! I love crayons and he loves dino’s — it was a hit! Let’s dig into our crayon boxes and recycle all those crayon stubs, broken bits, or new crayons into melted crayon art — dino style! Triceratops and Brachiosaurus make a beautiful art piece, especially when the sunlight hits them! Continue reading
Let’s get craft today with coffee filters! As the filter dries you’ll be amazed — caterpillars aren’t the only thing that transforms. Continue reading
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Chuga, Chuga, Choo, Choo! It’s a perfect day to explore pretend play with Thomas & Friends finger puppets. I highly recommend pre-cutting everything — it’s very time-consuming. C could hardly wait to play, let alone help decorate our fun puppets! This is a parent and child activity. Continue reading
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Rip! Tear! Babies love to rip, crinkle, and squish things. Let’s explore their tactile and auditory senses and let them create a paper collage. Continue reading
I love recycled crayon crafts or maybe just crayons! Muffin crayons are a simple, fast craft that all ages can benefit from ― even better. Of course, adult supervisor is required, especially with the little ones. This is a parent and child activity.
1. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees.
2. Collect all your broken crayons, peel the remaining paper off, and sort the pieces by color.
3. Break crayons into small pieces, roughly 1″ or shorter. (Tip: we did longer pieces and it wasn’t as swirled, so shorter is better.)
4. Spray tin with cooking spray, this will give you a smoother finish, more “puck” like or line with cupcake wrappers. We uses liners, but as you see, the edges are rougher.
5. Next divide your crayons into each muffin slot. (Tip: limit the color selection in each slot to 3 colors. Anything more than that will create an unattractive brown color.)
6. Fill your muffin tin about 1/2 full, equivalent to four crayons per muffin tin. We only did 2, so they are much thinner.
7. Place the muffin tin in the oven for 5-8 minutes or until the crayons are completely melted. Watch closely, they melt fast.
8. Take them out of the oven once melted (parent), then stir each tin with a toothpick to swirl the crayons.
9. Let them cool completely in the pan, crayons will be extremely hot! Then turn the tin over and pop the new fun crayons out of the tin!
C loved them! Although he’s 3 and still tried to put them in his mouth, so be careful.
They do resemble cookies, well sort of, lol! 😉
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