Make Your Own Dollhouse

Makeables

I’ve never met a little girl who didn’t like a dollhouse, but the store bought plastic ones can be very expensive. So why not make your own? Making a dollhouse can be just as much fun as playing with it, and you can make a pretty snazzy one with materials...
Free Science Activities for Kids

Free Science Activities for Kids

Makeables, Playables, Teachables

Science experiments are a fantastic way to learn while having fun, and ZOOMsci is full of free ideas for science activities and experiments. Try making butter in the Chemistry section, a homemade flashlight in the Engineering section, or a potato maze in the Life...
Free Thanksgiving Craft for Kids

Free Thanksgiving Craft for Kids

Makeables, Teachables

I can’t believe it’s this close, but Thanksgiving is right around the corner, so get ready to have lots of holiday fun! Here are some easy Pilgrim and Indian crafts to get you started. All you need is a toilet paper roll, some crayons or markers, glue, and...

Free Toys to Print and Build

Makeables

I have never enjoyed crafts very much, but as soon as I saw these box toys I had to immediately print one out. Paperboxworld has a bunch of free toys to download and build. It makes me want to print them all out and make up stories to go along with them. They have...
Decorate a Pumpkin in Three Easy Steps

Decorate a Pumpkin in Three Easy Steps

Makeables

If you have very young children, or if you just don’t like the mess of pumpkin carving, why not try painting pumpkins? This is great idea, because not only is it safer and less messy, it is much easier! Materials needed: Pumpkin Paint Paintbrush Newspaper Step...

Apple Ornament Craft

Makeables

I went apple picking a few days ago and was reminded that October is National Apple month. So here is a festive craft to get you ready for fall! It’s an easy apple ornament that you can hang in the kitchen, or save to hang on your Christmas tree. Materials...

Totally cool makeable toys

Makeables

Check out some of the cutest makeable toys I have ever seen! Readymech.com has a whole line of unusual “characters” to print and build. There are scary monsters, and cute animals, robots and space creatures. Each is designed to fit on an...

D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) Kids Craft Site

Makeables

DIYKids.org is the site of Ellen and Julia Lupton, who are the authors of a new book by the same name: D.I.Y. Kids engages young people in making stuff, from binding their own books to sewing their own clothes. It’s packed with fun ideas for making stickers, logos,...

Free Crayola Fun for Kids

Makeables, Playables, Printables

Have you visited the Crayola website yet? There are tons of freebies here for hours of coloring and craft fun. You do have to register for access to some things, but after registering, you get access to over 900 craft ideas and over 1,000 activity and coloring pages....

Fun ways to reuse plastic bottles

Makeables, Playables

If your family regularly buys plastic bottles of pop or juice, the recent post at MyEducationJunction, 10 Things You Can Do With Empty Plastic is one you’ll want to check out. I love the bowling play set, and cutting off the bottom of the bottle for use as a...

3D Paper Craft Fun

Makeables

Via Heart of the Prairie, I found this amazing site by Canon where you can learn to make a zillion different things to play with out of paper. There are instructions to make animals and toys and even a “Craftown” with over 30 different buildings and...

More 4th of July Fun

Makeables, Printables

Here are some more July Fourth activities as we get ready for Independence Day! Printables4Kids has a July 4th word scramble to keep you busy, and the Free Holiday Ideas site has some neat ideas for homemade “poppers” made from things like Mentos and Alka...

A special Mother’s Day card to print and color

Makeables, Printables

Would you like to create a special Mother’s Day card for Mommy? Here are two cards with pretty flowers to color. Just print them out and color the front. You can fold it in half and write your own special message inside or draw a nice picture, and your card is...

Kids Craft Weekly Newsletter

Makeables

I recently came across a wonderful newsletter for parents and kids called Kids Craft Weekly.  This newsletter, which is written by a stay at home mom from Australia, is extremely well done, and contains a wide variety of projects for kids.  Every week is a different...