activities, crafts, games and other fun projects for preschool aged children
Make a cute owl or two using a recycled cardboard tube. You can decorate your owl with scraps of paper, felt or anything else you have available. Color with crayons or use glitter paint. Your preschooler can make a whole pile of owls with this simply craft idea. You could then make all kinds of … Read more
Making puppets is a fun way for preschoolers to get creative, create characters they’ve dreamed up, get crafty and pretend play. Recycle your old dried out mark lids into fabulous finger puppets! It’s a craft project and playset in one. Make the puppets and then have fun play with the puppets. This project marker lid … Read more
We seem to have a stock pile of Capri Sun pouches. I was sure I would make one of those fabulous tote bags out of recycled juice pouches, but I never got around to it. So instead, we make craft projects with them. The shiny silver is a fun material to make things with and … Read more
There are so many fun things you can do with scraps of fabric. I recently saw a project from Tinker Lab that showed how to upcycle a well loved shirt by letting your kids color and decorate over the old stains to make a new piece of clothing. This got me thinking, we could use … Read more
With a paper plate and some craft supplies, you and your preschooler can make some very festive masks for Mardi Gras. We used some supplies from our stash including glitter paint, gems, some paper flowers and even some gold buttons. You could use whatever supplies you have on hand. Markers or crayons, ribbon, tissue paper, … Read more