Fun with dish soap It kept them busy for a while E's bubble beard! Rock animals Button Board Buttons sewn into a piece of scrap fabric, then stapled to a canvas, and used with felt shapes Great for fine motor skills The finished product Paper plate bird Snakes with rocks collected from a trip to the beach Added water the next day, for something different Painting with magnets Edible art! Painting on birch bark E collected Dinosaur playground in cocoa shells The stuff dreams are made of! Practicing counting watermelon seeds The finished product Yarn dipped in white glue and glitter, then wrapped around a balloon After the glue is fully dry, pop the balloon and the yarn keeps it's shape Having fun lacing a paper plate Great for fine motor skills Staining birdhouses! Having fun in popcorn kernels E's really into creating his own stories Time for a break The coolest muffin tin ever - Cars 2 Step 1 - 35 magnetic objects Step 2 - Cover them with packing peanuts, then let the search begin Play Dough Recipe 1 cup of flour 1/2 cup of salt 2 tbs of cream of tartar 1 tbs of oil 1 cup of water Cook on medium heat for 3-5 min, stirring constantly, until stiff I added rainbow rice, corse salt, and lentils to three separate pieces to create different textures They loved it! Frogs and turtles sitting lily pads cut from foam paper Paper plate jelly fish Crayons glued to a canvas, then the boys melted them with a hairdryer Next time I wouldn't bother taking all the crayon wrappers off Playing farm in wood chips Nature scene made from the treasures collected at the beach Bird feeder made from a juice container Shoelace necklaces A fun way to work on fine motor skills and spelling! Paper mache volcano Juice bottle inside contains baking soda and vinegar to make the eruption Cars frozen, then sprayed with salt water This entertained them on and off for a couple of hours Shaving cream and water beads Playing in Jello with cookie cutters! Paint frozen in popsicle molds He loved it Insect Hunters Beans are a lot less mess than dirt Slime 3/4 cup of water 1 cup of corn starch a couple drops of desired food colour Let sit for a few minutes before using When done must go into garbage, not sink Marble madness Sort by colour, shape, etc. Finger painting without the mess Paint sealed in Ziploc bags Looking for bugs in Easter grass Colouring on a shower curtain with washable markers When you are done, hose it down and start over another day Fishing lures can serve more than one purpose (without the hooks of corse) Deep sea adventure We LOVE water beads!
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