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Painting With Modeling Clay
I was just given some modeling clay from my neighbor because she didn’t want to deal with the mess. To be honest, I didn’t really want to deal with it either; until I saw this post! She includes her...
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Cloud Dough
I love sensory activities, especially for my preschool age kids…who am I kidding, I love them for myself too! I can just imagine all of us gathered around the table playing with this amazing dough!...
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Make Your Own Play Doh Picture Mats
Get kids coloring in a different way, filling in the lines with Play Doh! You don’t have to be an artist to be able to make these reusable, laminated pictures — simply follow these little drawing...
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Love Bug Ladybugs Picture Holder
These little love bugs are too cute to resist and are easy to make using clay and paper clips. The creator, Pauline from Club Chica Circle, Crafted these along with the printable tags to use as a...
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Teach Children About Respect With A Fairy Tale and Clay Gems
Dora, from Blue Fish on a Bike, was looking for a way to teach her children about respect. When she was trying to come up with a creative way to do this and remembered an old fairy tale about a toad...
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Pumpkin Spice Latte Play Dough
If you love the smell of pumpkin pie, you will definitely want to make a batch of this play dough for your kids. The kids will have fun with this activity and, as an added bonus, the house will smell...
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Learning to Use Scissors with Play Dough
It seems like some of the most popular posts here are related to play dough. While most are great recipes you can use to make your own play dough, this posts gives you an idea you can use with all of...
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Make Your Own Kinetic Sand
I do believe that kinetic sand was one of the big seller this past holiday season. I know I bought a couple of boxes to pull out when my grandkids come to visit. Did your household get any? I also...
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Have Fun with Jell-Doh
Making and playing with Play dough is always a great way to entertain kids and help pass the time. Not only can it be used for fun, you can use it as part of many different lesson plans. If you like...
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Homemade Herb and Spice Play Dough
Play dough is always a hit with kids of all ages. Play dough can be even more fun when it is homemade! Georgina, from Craftulate, took making play dough to a new level when she added herbs and spices...
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Salt Dough Flower Fingerprints
When I found this project posted on the Meaningful Mama blog, my first thought was that it would make a fun Mother’s Day gift! The colorful flowers pictured here are made using salt dough that is...
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Art with Babies
If you are looking for some creative activities you can do with babies, check out these ideas posted by Joanna on her Lazy Mom’s Blog. Joanna shares three different ideas. The first is a no-mess...
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Wild West Playdough Printables
My grandkids love playing with play dough, but sometimes they get bored quickly. I think this play set, posted on B-Inspired Mama, would really help with that dilemma. They can have a lot of fun with...
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Making Stamps with Plasticine
Vicki, from Art with Kids, turned a lump of clay into a fun art lesson for her class. While she created the stamp pictured here that ended up looking like Impatiens, she encouraged the children to...
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Kids DIY Ceramic Hand Dish
These Mid Century ceramic hand dishes are adorable. They are perfect for cultural lessons including Diwali The Indian Festival of Lights. These would be great little gifts for parents or teachers too....
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Amazing DIY Heat Sensitve Slime
This is another DIY Kid’s dough recipe but this one is super cool! Add heat activated pigment to take your DIY Dough to the next level. The full instructions and recipe can be found here at...
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The Ultimate List of 3 Little Pigs Crafts, Lessons and Actvities
It doesn’t matter if you are reading this classic story at home, in school or at church. This is a mega round up of different activities and crafts you can use to enrich the learning and take it one...
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Make a Clay Portrait of Mom for Mother’s Day
There are so many great craft ideas out there for kids to make things for Mother’s Day, but I really love these Plasticine portraits from Make it Your Own because they can be a learning activity, too....
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Easy Diwali Crafts for Kids
There are lots of great crafts associated withDiwali the festival of lights, and making something related to a holiday or celebration that you don’t celebrate yourself is a great entry point (of...
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Activities for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
King Day is typically a time of service and reflection on what each of us can do to help make our communities better places, as well as discussions of racial equity and how our nation still falls...
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