![]() Cheerios can be substituted with round pasta. Zip ties are perfect for the abacus because you can lock it from both sides with an extra zip tie, which is then cut off. We made this abacus from cheerios, box and zip ties. The possibilities are endless, just use caution. You can build cars with playdough, and add button wheels, you can make a face from playdough and add button eyes, nose, mouth. We made a skull shape from play dough and decorated with buttons and sticky gems. Here we made a fun skull for the Day of the Dead and for Halloween. This button set includes a variety of different shapes and colors, and it’s a lot of fun to use them in combination with play dough. So be creative, challenge dads to engineer rockets, and have fun with your kids! My husband engineered this fancy rocket (pictured in the middle), the rocket comes off from the straw as well, and it does fly better than the ones I built. Then you place a rocket on a straw, blow in the straw, and it blasts off. The key here is to make sure to tape or glue it well so no air gets into the rocket from any openings besides the bottom. Here’s a fun rocket flying activity – place a paper rocket on a straw, have your kid blow in the straw and the rocket launches into the sky! I made 2 simple rockets, pictured on left and right, by cutting out rocket shape from construction paper and taping it together. I made these with stones I got at Michael’s, I painted them with white acrylic first, and then painted art with acrylic paint, and finished the details with brush pen. And when Scarlett gets a little older I’m planning to make more story stones for other books, and then all stones can be mixed up in a bag, and we can take rocks in a random order and create our own stories. Another way to play is to recreate a story without a book. We play by matching rocks to the pictures on each page of the book. I made story stones for Room on the Broom book. Story stones can be a great addition to your story time. Show your toddler how to stick pompoms to a sticky surface! You can get creative and lay out patterns with pompoms, but random colors work great as well! Optionally, you can use pieces of colored tissue paper for this project.Īs an option, you can stick it on a window or mirror. Next, peel off the protective sheet, and tape contact paper to a surface sticky side up. ![]() Butterflies are symmetrical, so it doesn’t matter which side of contact paper you draw it on, but it’s just more convenient to draw it not on a sticky side. We used large pompoms and small pompoms because we had them but one set would be enough as well.įirst, cut a piece of contact paper and draw a butterfly with a marker. Your toddler can make this beautiful butterfly, and the set up is very easy.
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