300 Arts and Crafts Ideas for Kids
Sometimes you get stuck inside because it’s raining. Or maybe you’re at the cottage, or maybe the power has gone out. Or maybe you just love arts and crafts because, hey, who doesn’t!?
Here are 300 ideas to keep the kids busy. Most are quick and simple, but lots of room is left to experiment. Many crafts can also be used in games.
Get creative! Mix it up. Hopefully this article will provide hundreds of hours of entertainment for you and your and kids.
Have fun!
1. Make a bridge out of popsicle sticks. Use scissors to chop them up and a glue gun to put them back together in the order you’d prefer. Try to make the strongest bridge to put items on.
2. Find rocks outside. Get out a miniature paint set and create your very own pet rocks. Arrange them on a windowsill afterwards where they can all hang out.
3. Make paper snowflakes to hang on the wall. Fold up a piece of white paper and cut diamond and triangle shapes into it. Once you unfold it, it’ll look like a snowflake.
4. Make a turkey with your hand. Outline your hand on a piece of paper, then cut where the line is. Then, paint the paper so the thumb is the head and the feathers are the fingers.
5. Make a Valentine’s Day card. Fold a piece of pink paper in half and cut half a heart. When you open it, it’ll be a perfectly even heart card you can write in. Hand them out to your favorite people on February 14th.
6. Get a large piece of white paper. Find some paint bottles and use your hands instead of paintbrushes to paint shapes. This will be a much more interact way for kids to make art.
7. Find old flowerpots you aren’t using anymore. Ask your kids to decorate them with paint and they’ll become instant works of art. Let the kids pick which plants will go in them.
8. Make a decorative Christmas tree. Cut Styrofoam in a 3D triangle and paint it green. Stick colored pins into the Styrofoam to look like lights and ornaments.
9. Make a rainbow with tissue paper. Buy all the colors of tissue paper and chop them up. Glue them in the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple from outside to inside in a semi-circle formation.
10. Make animals out of toilet paper rolls. After all the toilet paper is gone, use some paint and googly eyes to turn each roll into a goofy little animal.
11. Paint each other’s faces. You don’t need any paper for this one. Take turns using face paint and turn each other into different people or animals.
12. Make Christmas decorations with popcorn. Put a string on a needle and draw it through popcorn. Add some cranberries to really make it pop.
13. Make a Christmas ornament out of a lightbulb. Put a picture of your family in a lightbulb, then attach a hook.
14. Buy string to make bracelets. Learn how to do a little loop to make friendship bracelets and give them to your friends. Personalize each one with an emoji that represents them.
15. Use chalk to make a hopscotch path. Draw it on the sidewalk and follow along with your steps. You’ll get to do both art and exercise. Turn it into a game for even more fun.
16. Make your own book. Put three sheets of paper together and fold them in half. Open them up and staple where the crease is. Then, draw and write and close the book again for people to flip through.
17. Make flowers out of cupcake molds. Get little paper cupcake molds and paint them. Then, glue them to a piece of paper and put a yellow circle in the middle of the petals to complete the look.
18. Use a plastic fork to paint tulips. Put paint on the fork and press in on the paper upside down. The pointy tips should be facing up. Then, paint green stems below them.
19. Make fish with toilet paper tubes. Paint the tube like a fish, then add googly eyes, and use the opening as the mouth. The fish will look very surprised.
20. Make a lamb out of Q-Tips. Cut the ends off the Q-Tips and then draw a sheep on a sheet of paper. Use hot glue to put the Q-Tip ends on the sheep as wool for a 3D finish.
21. Make pencil toppers out of felt. Cut out a cute shape in the felt, like a heart or cloud. Then, cut two parallel slits in it for the pencil to fit through. Now you can write in style.
22. Make pencil case holders out of soup cans. Take the labels off and paint them to look like nature scenes or animals. Put your pencils and pens inside.
23. Make a suncatcher with beads. Twirl a metal wire and let the beads slide down. Attach a string at the end and hang it outside to glisten in the sun.
24. Make a stain glass window. Glue different colors of tissue paper together and let it dry. When you put it next to a window, the light coming in will change colors.
25. Make a bird house out of a milk carton. Paint it your favorite color and cut out an opening. Hang it on a tree outside with birdseed inside and watch the birds flutter in.
26. Make anteaters out of colored paper. Outline your hand and cut out the shape. Turn it upside down and add a googly eye where your thumb is.
27. Use popsicle sticks to make miniature puppets. Paint them like your favorite animals and add googly eyes. Then, you can hold them up behind a desk and put on a show.
28. Paint with sponges. Cut sponges into star and heart shapes. Dip them in paint and press them on a page to create a piece of art. Throw some glitter in the air (outside) and get some to land on your shapes. Shake off the excess glitter before bringing inside.
29. Make a fish with sparkling scales. Cut out a fish shape and add a googly eye. Paint out scales and add a few that have glitter glue. Hang it on the wall and it’ll sparkle when the light touches it.
30. Make flowers out of toilet paper tubes and construction paper. Paint the tubes green and cut out flower shapes to glue on top. Use green construction paper to add leaves to the bottom.
31. Make a rose out of construction paper and pipe cleaners. Cut out petals and glue them to the top of a green pipe cleaner until a rose forms.
32. Make glitter cups. Cover a mason jar in white glue and roll it in glitter. Now, you have a gorgeous cup to drink out of.
33. Make your own snow globe. Fill a mason jar with water, food coloring, and glitter. When you shake it, the glitter will fill the bottle and flutter around.
34. Paint your own mug. Get a white ceramic mug and paint your name in your favorite font. This way, it’ll always be your mug. No one else gets to use it. Alternatively, you could visit one of those paint-your-own ceramic places. Then you can paint anything!
35. Make your own calendar. Print out pictures of you and your family at different times of the year. Use a ruler to draw out the days of the month.
36. Make your own scarf. Get some yarn, pins, and learn how to knit with an online video. A scarf or blanket will be the easiest to complete. YouTube is a great resource for knitting videos. There are also lots of great articles on the internet. It’s easier than you think.
37. Braid flowers into someone’s hair. Break the hair into three pieces and go over the middle piece with alternating outer pieces. Use pins to place flowers in the braid like in Tangled.
38. Make your own dress from an old sweater. Pull your body through the neck hole, then tie the sleeves around the back into a bow for a cute strapless dress.
39. Make a bowl with a balloon. Blow up a balloon and cover half of it in glue, beads, and glitter. Once it dries, pop the balloon and you have a bowl. Great for candy, cookies, or fake fruit.
40. Make your own stuffed animals. Cut up two pieces of felt in an animal shape. Sew the sides shut almost completely and fill it with cotton balls. Then sew it shut and add a googly eye.
41. Make a necklace out of dry macaroni pasta. Paint the pasta different colors and pull the string through the shells. Tie it in the back and you have a necklace.
42. Create your own marble run with toilet paper tubes. Tape the together in a pathway and drop your marble down it to take it on a wild ride.
43. Make year-round garden flowers. Buy clear plates and paint them like flowers with acrylic paint. Tape a stick to the bottom and put them in the soil. It’s like a fake indoor plant, but you can leave them outside! Flowers in the winter. What a world.
44. Make your own 3D rainbow. Paint a rainbow on a sheet of paper, then glue cotton balls to the bottom as the clouds.
45. Paint a picture frame for your family. Find a blank frame at the craft store and paint it with acrylics. Paint your family’s names around the border and add a family photo.
46. Make a tree out of green tissue paper and toilet paper tubes. Cut the tube in half and glue it to the paper. Cut the other half into smaller pieces and glue them on as branches. Then, crumple up green tissue paper and glue it on as leaves.
47. Make a bird’s nest out of tissue paper and sticks. Cut a paper in a semi-circle. Find sticks or hay outside and glue them to the paper. Add little balls of tissue paper with googly eyes to be the little birds.
48. Make a fish with a moving tail. Cut out and decorate a fish with no tail, then cut out and decorate a tail separately. Attach the, with a pin so you can move it like it’s swimming.
49. Make a bird out of a triangle cup. Flip it upside down and paint it like a bird. Add googly eyes for full effect. Add some painted eggs for some extra fun.
50. Make a sculpture out of soap. Use a butter knife and carve out pieces from the soap until you make a pretty shape, like a heart or flower. When you get bored of it, you can use it to clean yourself!
51. Make a paper pinwheel. Cut out four triangles and pin the corners together. Fold them into themselves and pin it again. Glue a stick to the pin and watch it spin in the wind.
52. Make your own playdough out of ½ cup of cornstarch, 1 cup of baking soda, and ¾ cup of water. Heat it up together and add food coloring for some play time.
53. Make a 3D lamb. Get a white plate. Add toothpicks as legs and cover it with cotton balls. Add a googly eye, and Mary had a little lamb.
54. Make a turkey with leaves. Cut out a paper circle and add a beak and eyes. Find leaves in the backyard and glue them to the back so they fan out like a tail.
55. Paint with leaves to make nature art. Tape leaves to a piece of paper, and paint over them on the white parts. Once it dries, remove the leaves and you’ll have different leaf shapes displayed.
56. Make abstract art with a straw. Plop some different colors of paint on a page and use a straw to blow them around in funky ways. Maybe your kid will turn into the next Jackson Pollock and you’ll make millions of dollars. Hey, a woman can dream, can’t she?
57. Make a reindeer out of candy canes. Wrap two candy canes together with a brown pipe cleaner. Add two googly eyes and a red pompom. Now, it’s Rudolph.
58. Make fake cactus plants. Paint rocks green with white speckles. Give them googly eyes and put them in a miniature pot. No water needed.
59. Make your own Easter baskets. Twist a piece of paper in a cone and tape it shut. Poke holes in the top and tie a ribbon to it. Now, you can collect your mini eggs.
60. Make a caterpillar out of construction paper. Cut the paper into strips and staple them in circles, connecting to each other like a chain. Then, add googly eyes and little antennas to the first loop and you have a caterpillar.
61. Make colorful bubble art. Mix dye into the bubble mix. Blow the bubbles and hold up a piece of paper. Catch the bubbles and it’ll splatter in a nice way.
62. Buy a jewelry set to make your own jewelry. You can add beads to earrings, necklaces, and bracelets for easy, inexpensive jewelry.
63. Paint a flowerpot upside down. Dribble different colors to the back of a pot, and let it drip down. Then, when you turn it upside down, it’ll look like cool graffiti art.
64. Make counting sticks with glitter. Write down one to ten on popsicle sticks. Then, put the same number of dots in glitter on the sticks. It’ll make it easier to learn numbers in a fun, creative way.
65. Make a watering can out of a plastic milk jug. Paint the jug any design you like, then poke holes in the cap. Fill it with water and pour over plants.
66. Make a pretend accordion with construction paper. Fold a piece back and forth in slivers. When you pull it apart, it’ll be a zigzag like an accordion.
67. Make a miniature jungle in a shoebox. Fill it with leaves and decorate it with animal figurines. You can play with them in their makeshift home.
68. Make jellyfish out of toilet paper tubes. Paint them pink and add googly eyes. Then, cut up pink streamers and add them to the bottom for the tentacles.
69. Fish for magnets. Attach a string to a stick, with a magnet at the end. Cut up fish-shaped cardboard and attack metal to the back. Put them in a bucket and drop in your fishing rod.
70. Make magnetic Tic-Tac-Toe. Cut out carboard circles and x’s. Glue magnets to them, then play interactive Tic-Tac-Toe on your fridge or a white board.
71. Make your own fairy crown. Cut out a long strip of construction paper and measure it to your head. Staple it where it fits and take it off. Next, find any flowers, either fake or real, and glue them on. Once you put the crown back on, you’ll look like a fairy royalty.
72. Paint a painting with tape. Put pieces of tape in a cool pattern over your canvas. Then, paint over the page and wait for it to dry. Once it’s dry, Pull the tape away and reveal white shapes in your painting. Great way to get your kids interesting in professional painting. Now get them to do paint the living room!
73. Make a Christmas tree craft with your handprint. Cut out the shape of your hand several times in green construction paper. Turn the paper upside down and glue them to a popsicle. Add little pom poms for fun.
74. Try the melted snowman challenge. Get three cotton balls, sticks, a baby carrot, and black buttons and see if your child can create a snowman on their own.
75. Make a butterfly with a pencil. Cut out wings with construction paper. Glue jewels down the pencil and glue on the wings. Add googly eyes and you have a butterfly.
76. Make your own 3D helicopter. Find two straws and glue them crisscrossed on a page. Draw a helicopter underneath and you automatically have a touch and feel helicopter. Turn it into a birthday card.
77. Make a 3D beach scene. Get sand, shells, and cotton balls. Draw out a beach scene with pencil crayons, then use glue to add cottons balls as clouds, and sand and shells for a 3D effect.
78. Make a gingerbread cookie of yourself. Use a person shape to make the cookie. Then, decorate it with sprinkles to give yourself your favorite clothes, hair color, face, and shoes.
79. Create your own carnival streamers. Cut fabric into triangles. Glue the shortest side to a string, and alternate colors. When you hang it up, it’ll look like you’re at a circus.
80. Make your own finger puppets with paper. Cut out the shape of the animal you’d like twice. Then, glue them together around the sides, with one opening for your finger to fit in. Put your finger in and voila.
81. Use trains to make a painting. Dip miniature trains with wheels into paint, then roll them along a blank page in patterns. At the end, you’ll have a beautiful abstract painting.
82. Learn the alphabet with a Christmas wreath. Cut out a donut shape in green construction paper. Then, write all the letters of the alphabet on the wreath. If you get a letter right, you can glue a pompom to the wreath. At the end, it’ll be a fully decorated wreath. If not’s not Christmas, you could make a summer or spring wreath.
83. Make a catapult with a clothespin. Glue one side to a block of wood, so that the wires are visible. Then, you can decorate the block and put buttons and corks on one end of the catapult. Then, press down and watch them fly.
84. Make snowflakes out of popsicle sticks. Paint them white and add glitter. Then, use 3 or 4 and glue them together at the middle so they’re flared outwards. Start with 2 to make an x, then add 2 more in between.
85. Use leaves to make a painting. Find some outside, and with a clothespin, pick them up and dip them in paint. Then, use that as a paintbrush over a canvas. The end result is quite pretty.
86. Use yarn to make an art piece. Place pins on a corkboard in the shape of an animal. Then, use string to twirl around the pins to showcase the shape of the animal.
87. Use your feet to paint. Set up sheets on the ground and get your kids to dip your feet in paint and stomp on the pages. This interactive way of making art will make your kids, or anyone, extra giddy. Maybe do it outside in the driveway, or you could end up with quite the mess.
88. Make Easter cards for your friends and family. Fold a piece of paper in half. At the fold, cut out most of an oval/egg shape, because when the scissors come back the fold, leave a bit attached. So, it’s not two egg cut-outs, they’re attached at the top where the fold is. Give them as cute Easter cards.
89. Make fireworks with paint. Add droplets of paint to a paper plate. Then, twirl the plate so the wet paint falls in a twirl pattern. It’ll look like fireworks.
90. Make a rainbow out of your handprint. Paint a stripe of every color of the rainbow on your hand. Once complete, squish it on a piece of paper to create a new art piece.
91. Make a hanging spider with your handprint. Cut out two black handprints and cut off the thumb. Then, glue them together so it looks like eight legs. Add googly eyes and a string to hang it from the ceiling.
92. Use bingo stamps to create a fall tree. Glue sticks from outside on a piece of paper. Add orange, yellow, and red bingo stamps around the sticks to make them look like autumn trees.
93. Make little chicks out of paper plates. Find miniature yellow paper plates and cut into the edges so it looks frayed. Then, add googly eyes and an orange triangle of construction paper for a beak.
94. Make a kite out of a paper bag. Decorate a brown lunch bag with colored pencils and stickers, then add streamers to the bottom. Attach a string and run around with it.
95. Make your own Christmas tree topper. Find a small, triangle water cup (like the ones used at water coolers). Cover it in glitter and paint to make it look like a star and put it on your tree.
96. Build your own fake aquarium. Use a shoe box and decorate the inside with blue paint and green little plants. Then, use Play-Doh to make fish to place in your makeshift aquarium.
97. Make miniature pirate boats with corks. Put elastic bands around three in a row and add a toothpick umbrella for the sail. Put them in the sink and you have pirate ships.
98. Make a bird with a nest. Cut out the shape of a chick in construction paper. Add fake feathers to give it a 3D effect. Glue it to a piece of paper then glue sticks underneath for a nest. Finally, glue some small rocks as eggs. This is a great Easter craft, but also a fun Springtime craft. You could also do it in late summer/fall when there are lots of branches lying around.
99. Use a water bottle to make a winter wonderland scene. Find a piece of blue construction paper. Set up white paint and dip the top of a plastic water bottle into it. Push the bottle onto the page to create a scene of falling snowflakes.
100. Use candy canes to make a tree ornament. Keep the candy canes in their original plastic. Add some glitter to make them pretty. Glue two together facing each other so it looks like a heart, then hang it on the tree.
101. Use cupcake liners to make flowers. Find colorful cupcake liners and cut into the sides to create petals. Paint a popsicle stick green and glue them together. Stick it in the ground.
102. Make your own fake snow. Get one pound of baking soda, ten ounces of shaving cream, and some white glitter. Mix them together and create your own snowballs and sculptures.
103. Make a raft out of sticks. Find a bunch outside and out them to the same size. Glue them together side by side. Glue a straw to the top and add a triangle of construction paper for the sail. Put them on water and sail away.
104. Make your own Easter hay for baskets. Find several different sparkling and colorful papers. Get a zigzag pair of scissors and cut a bunch of strands from each. Put them all in baskets with eggs and you suddenly have beautiful spring baskets. Hand them out to neighborhood kids as a fun gift and reason to get together and have fun. It’s like a birthday party, for the Easter Bunny!
105. Make caterpillars with talking mouths. Place four small pompoms on a clothespin. Put two googly eyes where the opening is. Press down on pin, it’s like you’re opening its mouth.
106. Make a bird feeder with a pinecone. Cover the pinecone in peanut butter, then dip it in bird seed. Glue a ribbon to the top and hang it outside your window.
107. Make your own rain sticks or maracas. Get a toilet paper or paper towel tube. Put tape on the bottom of one end. Pour some rice inside and tape up the other end. Decorate, then play music or listen to makeshift rain.
108. On Christmas, cut out a large gingerbread person out of cardboard or brown construction paper. Tape it to the wall, then let one person at a time add different candies and decorations to make a fully dressed gingerbread person.
109. Make an angel with three shapes. Cut out a triangle, a small circle, and a semi-circle. Glue the circle to one end of the triangle, and that is the head. Then, with the circle on the top, glue the semi-circle onto the triangle with the flat side towards the head. These are the angel’s wings. Now, decorate with sparkles and googly eyes.
110. Make your own shape of bubbles. Find a metal coat hanger and stretch it out until the triangle shape is a circle or something different. Dip it in bubbles and see what kind of shape your new wand produces.
111. Make paper tulips. Cut out semi circles with zigzags on top, like a tulip. Then, fold the paper back and forth four times. Stab a straw through the center. Pull the tulip down the straw to expand it.
112. Make a Christmas ornament that fits in well with the tree. Fill a glass bulb with pine needles and fake berries. Hang it on your tree!
113. Make a glow-in-the-dark fairy jar. Paint the inside of a jar with glow-in-the-dark paint, then swirl it in glitter. Wait for nighttime and it’ll look like the prefect mystical fairy home.
114. Make wreaths out of beads. Push red beads down a green pipe cleaner. Pull it into a circle, then tie a bow at the top. Hang it on your tree as a makeshift wreath.
115. Make your own hurdling course outside. Find any object kids can easily jump over and set them up in a path. Time your kids going over the jumps and see how fast they can go.
116. Make your own bugs who won’t crawl around in the house. Paint rocks to look like lady bugs. Paint them red, then give them black dots and googly eyes. Put them in potted plants.
117. Make a yarn-wrapped vase. Dip a strand in white glue (it’ll dry clear) then start at the bottom of the vase wrapping upwards. Stop one piece of yarn and switch colors if you like.
118. Make easy suncatchers for your window. Cut out any shape of fruit in parchment paper. Color the paper the color of the fruit. Tape it to the wall and the light coming in will change color as it goes through the paper.
119. Make a Tic-Tac-Toe out of felt. Cut out a square of felt and draw two vertical and two horizontal lines. Tape it to the fridge. Cut out x’s and circles in felt and glue Velcro to the backs.
120. Make baby bunnies with pompoms. Use one big pompom and one small and glue them together. Add a white pompom for the tail, and four small ones for the feet. Use felt to make the ears, eyes, and nose.
121. Make a birdfeeder out of an egg carton. Get an empty egg carton and tie strings to each corner and tie them at the top. Hang it from a tree and fill the egg holes with bird feed.
122. Play Skee-ball with laundry baskets. Find a bunch of balls or anything that will roll. Create a triangle ramp out of cardboard. Set up two baskets behind the ramp and see which baskets you can get them into more.
123. Make miniature ice sculptures. Put mini flowers in an ice cube tray. Fill them with water and food coloring. Once they freeze, take them out and arrange them in a circle to display your ice sculptures. Trickle salt on them to display the flowers. (Salt causes the ice to melt faster. So this one is a science experiment in addition to being a fun craft!)
124. Make a sandcastle with dirt. Use soil if you don’t have sand. Use cups or pots to create the castles. Fill them with dirt and turn them upside down.
125. Make flowers with a water bottle. Dip the bottom of a water bottle into paint. Then, press it onto a page and the outer rim will produce a floral shape on the canvas. Draw stems to make a floral garden.
126. Make pumpkin art with dry erase markers. Draw a silly face on a pumpkin, then pass it to the next person. They can erase part of what you wrote or add more with their own marker. It’s like Telestrations!
127. Make your own reindeer food. Get some raw oats to put in a bag. Then, add some glitter to the bag for some Santa Claus magic. Sprinkle it on the snow to feed to the reindeer.
128. Paint your own shower curtain. Move away from the fridge showcase. Put your kids’ drawings on the shower. Let them paint a white shower curtain with waterproof materials.
129. Make ladybug fridge magnets. Cut out small circles of felt, and then add two semi circles of different fabric for the wings. Add two googly eyes and glue a magnet to the back. You’ll die of cuteness every time you get food.
130. Make baby spiders with spoons. Buy miniature spoons and paint them black. Then, tie four black pipe cleaners around the spoon so that either end it a leg (giving it eight legs). Add googly eyes and you have a baby spider.
131. Make a fish with an egg carton. Cut out a bowl of an egg carton, so it’s like a little cup. Paint it any bright color. Glue the same colored tissue paper inside the cup to be the tail, as well as small amount on the sides for fins. Add a pipe cleaner in a small circle to be a guppy mouth and add googly eyes.
132. Make a pop-up rainbow with a paper plate. Cut a semi-circle slit along the interior rim. Pop it up and paint it like a rainbow. Make the rest of the plate fluffy clouds.
133. Make art with a syringe. Fill little cups with paint and get some turkey basters. Use the syringe to drop droplets onto the page and create shapes with only dots.
134. Make art out of sand or glitter. Create a drawing out of white glue. Then, pour glitter or colored sand onto the glue, and then shake it off. The sand or glitter will stick to the glue and reveal what you drew.
135. Make perfectly lined shapes with paint. Cut out a shape in a piece of paper. Throw out the shape and use the paper with a hole in it. Put it on a canvas and paint over it. Pull the sheet away and reveal the shape!
136. Make a movable owl. Cut out a circle and two tear-drop shapes. Add googly eyes to the circle to make it an owl. Use pins to put the wings on, and now they can move up and down like it’s flapping its wings.
137. Make an origami swan. Try your best to make one without direction, just to see how it turns out. Then, look up the proper folds online.
138. Make a lizard out of pompoms. Get three green pipe cleaners and use one for the body, and two for the front and back legs. Add green pompoms on its back for the body, then two white ones for the eyes (add black dots for pupils). Use a small pink pipe cleaner to the mouth for a tongue.
139. Make binoculars out of two toilet paper tubes. Decorate them and attach them side by side with glue. Add a string so you can hang them on your neck. Now, look into them like binoculars. Pretend to go bird or dinosaur watching in the backyard. First person to spot a T-Rex wins!
140. Make your own bugs out of leaves and sticks. Find leaves outside to be the shell and wings, rocks for eyes, and stick for legs. Glue them all together and scare your family.
141. Make your own twister activity wheel. Get a piece of cardboard and cut it into a circle. Add a pin and glue a paper arrow to the pin so you can spin it. Add fun activities from this list, and it’ll choose a random activity for you.
142. Make Easter eggs out of real eggs. Poke a hole in an egg with a drill or pin and let the insides out. Then, paint the outsides pastel colors for Easter.
143. Make your own telephone with tin cans. Drill a hole in the bottom of two soup cans. Place each end of a string in the two holes and tie a knot so it stays. The string should be moving away from the opening. Then, speak in the can and someone should hear what you say if you keep the string taught.
144. Make a life cycle of a frog with pompoms. Start with one pompom for an egg. Then, use a pompom and felt tail for the tadpole. Then use two pompoms and pipe cleaners for arms and legs for the frog. Give the frog and tadpole googly eyes.
145. Make a Valentine’s Day wreath with a paper plate. Cut out the middle circle of the plate. Then, add red glitter and cut-out red hearts to the exterior. Hang it up for a fun decoration.
146. Learn how to sew and make your own quilt. If you have a family member or friend who knows how, they can teach you. Quilt together your favorite patterns, such as old childhood pajamas.
147. Make a scrapbook of your favorite childhood memories. Find old photos (with parental permission) and make a book of your life.
148. Learn how to make your own signature. Practice it ten times and see if you can nail one you feel like represents yourself.
149. Host a Christmas card making party. Buy little foldable cards and use glitter, markers, paint, and stickers to make cards for your family and friends. Male sure to buy lots of extra cards incase people want to make multiples.
150. Make a magazine cover of yourself. Take your favorite photo of yourself, cut it out, and paste it to a piece of paper. Write down articles you’d want to be featured in the magazine you’re in.
151. Make little bees out of pistachio shells. Use either paint or markers to give them yellow and black stripes. Add a little smiley face and paper triangles for wings.
152. Create a trail for a ping pong ball to follow around your house. Use any household objects you can find to incorporate into the trail and use toilet paper tubes to help it travel elsewhere.
153. Make your own miniature rug. Use a yarn weaving tool to easily wrap the yarn around the prongs. The more you do it, the bigger your rug will get.
154. Make a papier-mache globe. Wrap a balloon in papier-mache, then pop the balloon once it’s dry. Paint it like a globe and fill in the countries.
155. Make a bouncy ball out of elastics. Start with one in a knot and keep adding more until it looks like a real bouncy ball. Once it’s ready, you can use it for games. It’ll bounce weird because it’s not even. This will add some randomness to the game.
156. Make a painting with bubble wrap. Paint a design on the bubble wrap quickly, then press it onto a page. Lift it up and you’ll reveal the design your print has made.
157. Make a tie-dye tapestry. Use a white sheet, and use dye, bleach, and elastics to make colorful circles. Hang it up on your wall as your new tapestry.
158. Make a flower necklace. Cut flowers out of felt and poke small holes in the middle. Then, bring a piece of yarn through the holes and stagger the flowers equally around the necklace. If the holes are small, they’ll stay in place.
159. Make a sculpture out of a stick of butter. Use a small butter knife and slowly carve out chunks until you reveal a shape, like a heart, or an animal, like a bear.
160. Paint with a squirt gun. Fill the gun with water and paint, then shoot it from afar at white canvases. See what designs the kids can come up with.
161. For more mature children, try to build a chair out of wood. If that can handle a hammer and nail, see if they can build a chair. Give them four legs, a seat, and a back.
162. Make cute kitchen dish towels. Get white linens and some paint. Put your hand on the towel, then splatter the paint on and around your hand. When you pull your hand away, it’ll be white where it was. The effect will look very fun and homey.
163. Make cookies look like fossils. Before you cook them, use bobby pin or needle to draw out little fossils. Once they cook, your drawings will be enlarged, and you can see how your fossils have grown. Then, eat them.
164. Make your own pottery. Get a pottery wheel and try to teach yourself how to make a bowl. Try to find a teacher or use an online video if you can. Do your best until you get it right.
165. Make your own bubble wands. Use pipe cleaners to make a loop and handle. Add beads to the handle for pizazz and dip it in mix to blow bubbles.
166. Make photo frames out of other pictures. Buy a wooden frame from the dollar store, then line the sides with Polaroids or printed off miniature photos. Photos in photos is a very meta look.
167. Carve something out of a vegetable. Try a large potato. Use a small knife and see what shape you can make out of one potato. Then, cook it and eat your yummy creation.
168. Paint a porcelain statue. Find white, porcelain statues and use acrylic paints to add color. Now, you can put it on your mantle or windowsill as decoration.
169. Use a golf ball to make a painting. On a white canvas, Dribble different colored paints on the page. Get a gold ball and roll it around the paint to create an abstract look.
170. Make your own dollhouse. Find a cardboard box. Paint the inside and make miniature furniture for your dolls. Add some different rooms!
171. Make a sun with yarn. Find a yellow paper plate and cut out the middle circle. Add holes around the outside. Bring yarn in and out of the holes, crossing the middle, so that the center fills with yellow yarn. Add spikes of yellow felt to the exterior.
172. Embroider a bracelet with ribbon. Find two pieces of colorful string and make the third string a ribbon. Make a braid and give them to friends as a friendship bracelet. Add some beads.
173. Color your white shoes. Find white sneakers and use colored sharpies to spruce them up. Use black to outline, then fill it in with color.
174. Make a reindeer out of popsicle sticks. Use two to make a V, then one across the top of the V. Add googly eyes where the popsicles intersect, and a red pompom at the bottom of the V. Add a ribbon and hang it on the tree.
175. Make a miniature beach. Put a cup in a bowl. Fill the bowl with sand around the cup. Then, fill the cup with water. Add shells on the sand and it’ll look like a watering hole.
176. Use a comb to paint. Put droplets of different colored paint on a white sheet, then use a hair comb to spread it around in abstract ways.
177. Make a fox out of a Styrofoam cup. Paint the cup orange and put it upside down. Add a triangle of orange construction paper as the face, and another for the tail. Place a black pompom on the nose and add googly eyes.
178. Make negative art with sticks. Press foam stickers in a pretty pattern on a page. Then, paint different colors around them and fill in the page. Remove the foam stickers.
179. Make a pretty headband with ribbons. Twist the small ribbons into little stars. Then, glue them along a larger ribbon. Add some glitter to the center of each star.
180. Make a clock out of a paper plate. Paint it and decorate the rim. Add numbers along the outer interior circle. Use a pin in the middle to put an hour and minute hand made from construction paper.
181. Make a shooting star on a page. Get a piece of blue construction paper, then add a white star. Use colored ribbon to glue to the star, and glue it to the page as if it’s sprawled in the wind. Add glitter and you’re done.
182. Make a name plate for your room. Cut out the first letter of your name in cardboard. Wrap it in glue-covered string. Once it hardens, it’ll be a name plate for your windowsill.
183. Make a snail out of a coffee filter. Paint it your favorite snail color. Cut the circle a bit smaller so you can leave out a piece for the head. Add googly eyes and antennas.
184. Make a pompom bookmark. Glue a pompom to a ribbon or popsicle stick. Write quotes from your favorite books on it. Now, use it as a bookmark.
185. Turn your baseball hat into a Tyrannosaurus rex costume. Cut out triangles of white felt. Add them in a line from the front to the back, like scales. Then, add more on the brim like teeth. Add black felt eyes on the front.
186. Use your hand and arm to make a tree trunk. Paint the front of your hand and arm in brown, then stick it to the page. This is now your trunk and branches. Paint on leaves with a brush and you have a tree.
187. Make your own baby turtles. Cut a popsicle stick in half, and glue it into an X. Then, wrap green yarn around the X to create a circular shell. Draw a little face on one popsicle stick end to complete the baby turtle.
188. Make a sun with a paper plate. Paint it yellow. Cut the edges into zigzags. Add sunglasses and a smile. Tape it to the wall for indoor sunlight.
189. Make gems out of crayons. Mix different colored crayon bits into a gem mold if you have it, or just a metal cupcake mold. Melt them in the oven for a couple of minutes and the crayon colors with turn into one shape.
190. Make a bumble bee from popsicle sticks. Paint five yellow and five black. Glue them together alternating. Then, add googly eyes and black pipe cleaners as wings and antennas.
191. Make flowers with your fingers. Dip your fingers in paint and press one down in yellow. Use a different color to press your finger down five times in a circle for the petals. Use green paint to make the stem and leaves.
192. Make a troll out of popsicle sticks. Glue five popsicle sticks together and paint them. Add faux fur on the top. Use googly eyes and felt for the ears, nose, and mouth.
193. Make a bird feeder with a toilet paper tube. Slather the tube in peanut butter, then dip it in bird seed. Poke two holes in the top and use a pipe cleaner to attach it to the tree. This way, you’ll be able to see the birds, rather than watch them go inside a birdhouse.
194. Turn toilet paper tubes into a bunny stamp. Glue one normal tube to two slightly bent tubes, long side to long side. It should look like a circle with two almonds coming out. Dip it in paint and use it as a stamp to make bunnies for Easter.
195. Make spoon puppets. Paint some miniature spoons, give them faces, and put on a puppet show. Use googly eyes and pipe cleaners to decorate their faces.
196. Make a fire-breathing dragon with a toilet paper roll. Paint it green. Add red, orange, and yellow streamers to the end. Then, when you blow into it, they flutter like fire.
197. Create an exploding rainbow with crayons. Glue them in a semi-circle. Use a blow-dryer to make the ends melt and dribble down the page. Use a wide variety of colors for a cooler effect.
198. Make a porcupine out of an old book. Fan the pages and let them dry with open with a glue gun. Add little felt paws, googly eyes, and a pompom nose.
199. Make your own cookies with Play-Doh. Roll out your Play-Doh with a roller, then use a cookie cutter to make fun shapes. Don’t bake or eat your creations, just use it for fun practice baking.
200. Make a Valentine’s Day tree. Dip a heart-shaped cookie cutter into red and pink paint and make a cloud of heart. Draw the trunk underneath and you have a romantic tree.
201. Use socks to make puppets. All you have to do is add googly eyes, and other decorations for your puppet. Put your hand in the sock and move your hand to make it “speak.”
202. Make a night sky of fireworks with glitter glue. Mix white and colored glitter glue together. Put them in a bottle. Use black construction paper to draw out stars and fireworks for a starry night.
203. Make a phone stand with a toilet paper roll. Cut a slit for your phone in the side. Add decorations all over the roll. Then, add pushpins to the bottom so it stays up like a stand.
204. Make a sky bottle for rainy days. Fill an empty water bottle with cotton balls, blue sprinkles, and rainbow licorice. Shake it and it’ll look like a moving blue sky.
205. Make pirate ships with sponges. Put triangles of construction paper on toothpicks and stick them on sponges. Then, put them in the bathtub to let them sail.
206. Paint with eggs. Cut a hole in the top of an egg and pour out the insides. Fill it with paint. Then, throw it at a canvas and make explosive art with different paint eggs.
207. Make a mouse with a paper plate. Cut a plate in half. Paint it grey. Add pipe cleaner legs to the flat side, and googly eyes with a pompom for the face. For more fun, make some cheese out of yellow felt. Hide the felt and get the “mouse” to search for it.
208. Make a suncatcher with nature. Cut out the inside of a paper plate. Find flowers and leaves from the outdoors. Cover the hole in the middle of the plate with clear tape. Add your outdoor materials to the sticky part of the tape, then add more clear tape to keep them there. Tape it to the window and watch how the light dances off the nature.
209. Paint with cotton balls. Dip the balls into different colored paints and create art. Rainbows and clouds are recommended for this artform.
210. Make a flower out of colored tissue paper left over from gifts. Pinch the center of the paper then fluff it out. Glue the center of one into the center of another to create a layered, rose look.
211. Make your own chalk board. Paint an old cookie tray interior black. Add a ribbon to the top to hang it on a hook. Then, use white chalk to draw pictures and write thoughts.
212. Make a bird feeder with a toilet paper tube. Decorate the exterior by covering half the sides in construction paper. Fill it halfway with bird seed so that the construction paper keeps it in. Wrap a string around the top and tie it to a tree for birds to come to.
213. Use mason jars to make an organized spice rack. Paint the plant the spice comes from on the jar. You’ll get to know where the spice comes from and learn something.
214. Make a bus out of a juice carton. Paint the carton yellow. Use four caps as wheels and paint them blacks. Paint windows, kids, and a bus driver.
215. Make stuffed animals out of gloves. Fill the with cotton balls or feathers. Put googly eyes on and a smiley, felt mouth. Then, the fingers are its legs.
216. Create a marble design on a pot. Use three different colors, including white. Use a brush to slowly swirl them together, but not too much or it’ll become muddled. Then, put a plant inside it’ll look gorgeous.
217. Create opposite leaf imprints with paint. Put a couple leaves on a page, then splatter paint around them. When you remove the leaves, the shape will remain.
218. Make a banner of people you love. Write their names in glitter on paper doilies. Add things they love, like phrases, colors, or animals. Glue them to a long string and hand them on the wall.
219. Make a cherry blossom tree. Find sticks on the ground outside and glue them in tree formation on a page. Then, add little crumpled pieces of pink tissue paper as the petals.
220. Make flavored Play-Doh. Start with regular Play-Doh, and add essential oils, flavored water, or tea. Mix it together and you have scented Play-Doh to make shapes with.
221. Make a necklace out of straws. Cut up a couple different colorful plastic straws. Then, push them down a piece of yarn in a pattern. Tie it at the top and wear it.
222. Make your own aquarium in a jar. Fill a jar with stones for the bottom, leaves for seaweed, a floating toy fish, and dyed blue water. Set it on the windowsill for a display.
223. Make an outdoor nature jar. Find pinecones, leaves, and acorns to keep in your jar. When winter comes, you can look into your nature jar and remember the summer times.
224. Make a miniature guitar with a jar lid. Paint a large jar lid any color. Then, wrap three elastics around it. Glue a nail file to the back to make it look like a guitar and hold the elastics in place. Now, strum away.
225. Paint with wooden blocks. Find different wooden block shapes then dip them in paint. See what type of art you can create using just these shapes.
226. Make bunnies out of toilet paper rolls. Paint them pastel colors, then add googly eyes, a nose, and buckteeth. Cut out paper ears to add to the top.
227. Make a rainbow out of pompoms. Outline where the rainbow should be and fill in the colors with markers. Then, add pompom accents of the same color, with cotton balls as clouds.
228. Make a jewelry holder with paperclips. Twist paper clips into miniature hangers. Create a clothing rack out of toothpicks and glue. Hang the hangers on the rack, then hang your necklaces and earrings on them.
229. Make liquid sidewalk chalk. Mix cornstarch, vinegar, water, baking soda, and food coloring. Put it in squeeze bottles and go outside to spray shapes on the pavement.
230. Make a 3D Santa Claus decoration. Cut out a circle in construction paper and add a ribbon. Use pompoms for eyes and nose, and lots of cotton balls for the beard.
231. Make a spider out of an egg carton. Cut out the places the egg is held in a container. Paint it black and put it upside down for the body. Add googly eyes and attach eight pipe cleaners for the legs.
232. Use a toilet cleaner to make fireworks. Dip a circular scrub brush in paint and glitter. Press it on a page and it’ll look like fireworks in a night sky.
233. Make a miniature garden with eggshells. Crack open the eggs and put the half shells back into the container. Fill them with soil seeds, and water. Put them near a window and watch them all grow.
234. Make flowers with water bottles. Cut off the end and paint it pastel. The bubbles in the bottom of the bottle will look like petals. Attach a green straw and put it in the ground.
235. Play with paint in milk. Pour a plate of milk and drop some food coloring inside. Dip a toothpick into dish soap, then Put it in the food coloring spots and slowly swirl them.
236. Make snowmen out of popsicle sticks. Glue five in a line, then paint half of them white and the other half black (this will be the hat). Add buttons for eyes/ smile, and a carrot for nose.
237. Make bird puppets. Paint popsicles red, blue, and yellow (tropical!) Add tufts of colored tissue paper for the wings, an orange paper triangle for the beak, and googly eyes.
238. Make a flower pot out of a can of soup. Take off the label and paint it a pretty color. Drill drainage holes in the bottom. Add googly eyes, a pompom for a nose, and pipe cleaners for arms and smile. Fill it with soil and seeds.
239. Make a sea turtle with a paper plate. Paint the plate green. Glue green pompoms to the sides as legs, and one on the front as a face. Add googly eyes and put it in the water.
240. Make a 3D self-portrait with beads. Draw yourself on a page, then glue beads on as a necklace and earrings. This will make your self-portrait touch and feel.
241. Make a painted pasta necklace. Paint the hard macaroni different colors, then give them an order to go in on the necklace. This will help the children learn patterns. Tie up the necklace and now they can wear it.
242. Make a stand for your earrings. Use popsicle sticks to make two triangles. Place them upright, with staggered popsicle sticks placed between them. It should look like a triangular prism. Then, hang your earrings on middle sticks.
243. Use torn pieces of paper to make an image. Tear up different colored pieces of construction paper and see what type of abstract image you can create. Glue on the pieces once you’re happy with it. Optional: Add a thin layer of varnish/glue to give it a shiny “framed photo” look.
244. Make a fan with half a paper plate. Cut the plate in half, then decorate it however you like. Floral and sunsets work well. Glue a popsicle stick to the bottom, and fan it in your face when it gets warm out.
245. Try to paint a fruit basket in under twenty minutes. Use a set of paints and a blank piece of paper to see how well you fare. Ask if other family members can do one as well and have a competition.
246. Make jewels out of acorn tops. Take the tops off a bunch of acorns. Fill the insides with metallic paint. They’ll look like there’s hidden geodes inside.
247. Make a crab out of a CD. Find an old one you don’t care about anymore, or a blank one. Wrap it in red tissue paper. Add three legs and two claws out of red construction paper. Add googly eyes and you’re complete. If you can’t find a CD because who the heck listens to CDs anymore, then use an old DVD.
248. Make a butterfly out of toilet paper rolls. Cut one roll into quarters, so you have four little loops. Bend them into an almond shape and paint them. Wrap two pipe cleaners together and twirl the top pieces into antennas. Glue the rolls onto the sides to look like wings.
249. Make your own business cards. Write you credentials (best soup eater) underneath. Decorate it your favorite color and add a catchphrase. Give it to family members when they talk to you.
250. Use toilet paper and paper towel rolls to make both skyscrapers and houses. Cut out rectangles of construction paper and fold them to use as roofs. Poof: Your own town!
251. Make your own unicorn poop. Mix glitter glue, half a cup of liquid starch and food coloring. Once it’s mixed, it’ll become a slime mixture to play with that can only be described as unicorn poop.
252. Make a rainbow out of Froot Loops. Separate all the colors, then glue them on a page in a rainbow formation. Use marshmallows as the clouds.
253. Make a painting with apple. Cut them in half, and paint on the apple halves. Press the halves on the page to show the print you’ve produced. You could use other fruit, but it’ll get pretty messy with a banana.
254. Make a 3D fish scene. Paint a plate blue. Add a construction paper fish and seaweed, then find rocks from outside to put on the bottom as a touch and feel addition.
255. For younger kids, practice writing your name with stickers. Write down the child’s name on a big piece of paper. Then, give them stickers to follow along the lines and cover their name in them. It’ll take concentration and give you some much needed peace.
256. Make a magical tree to put over your garden. Find a branch on the ground. This is your miniature tree. Cover different branches in paint and others in glitter. Stick in the ground to give your garden an edge.
257. Make cookies and let your kids paint flowers on top. Make your favorite shortbread, then find two colors of food dye. Use a small brush to add petals to the cookies.
258. Make a flower with a paper cup. Cut six slits from the top of the cup downwards. When you open the slits, it’ll look like a flower. Color in the petals with paint or markers. Get a popsicle stick for the stem.
259. Make your own paper airplane. Decorate a piece of construction paper with your favorite stickers, glitter, and drawings. See how far you can throw it depending on how you fold it.
260. Make mushrooms out of toilet paper rolls and cupcake liners. Decorate each one with markers and stickers. Then, place the liner upside down over the upright toilet paper roll to turn it into a mushroom.
261. Make Oobleck, or the substance that is sometimes liquid sometimes solid. Use one cup of cornstarch and half a cup of water. Mix it slowly until it becomes a smooth cream. Try to squeeze it and watch it turn to a solid.
262. See how many nails you can hammer into one plank of wood. It’ll help you learn how to hammer a nail, and create a fun, abstract art piece.
263. Make paper plate koalas. Paint a large plate and two smaller plates grey. Then, glue the smaller plates to the bigger plate as ears. Cut an oval of black felt and use it as the nose, then add googly eyes.
264. Make moon sand for kids to play with. Mix eight cups of flour with one cup of baby oil. Add food coloring for a pretty color. Play with the moon sand and make castles and shapes.
265. Use a box of cards to make a face. Get a parent to use an X-Acto knife to cut out a smile. Then, paint the box and add googly eyes and add pipe cleaners as hair.
266. Make your own personal journal. But a blank journal at the store, then decorate the cover with glitter, drawings, photos, and words of encouragement.
267. Make a fish out of an old CD. Cover it in tissue paper and add glitter. Add a googly eye, then use construction paper for fins, a tail, and guppy lips.
268. Make edible finger paint. Mix a cup of vanilla pudding, some milk, and food coloring. Use this to make a painting and lick your fingers while you paint for a yummy treat.
269. Use water bottle caps to make a caterpillar. Paint them a bunch of different colors. Glue them in a wavy line on a page then add feet, antennas, and eyes. Decorate the background like a garden.
270. Make your own calendar. Staple together 12 pieces of paper. Draw out different designs for the months on each page, as well as a grid to write days in. Give it to your favorite person.
271. Build the biggest deck of cards you can muster. Set them up in an easy triangle at first, then continue until it’s high and wide. Don’t let anyone stomp their feet going past you.
272. Do the pepper soap experiment to show your kids how germs work. Pour water into a plate and sprinkle pepper over it. Dip a toothpick in dish soap and put it in the water. Watch how quickly the pepper moves away from the soap.
273. Make egg cups cute for the family. Find plain, wooden egg cups and paint them to your liking. No paint? Use a permanent marker.
274. Make a tie-dye shirt without paint. Draw lines on it with different colored permanent markers. Then, brush over the lines with rubbing alcohol to give it a blurred effect.
275. Create your own bowling club. Set up plastic water bottles in a triangle formation and use anything you can find that rolls to try to knock them over. If it’s too easy, move farther away.
276. Make your own outfit out of your parents’ clothes. Find your favorite piece from their closets and put together an amazing outfit. Conduct a fashion show for your family.
277. Make gems out of soap. Melt colorful soaps into gem molds. Let them harden overnight, and in the morning, you’ll have beautiful gem-shaped soaps for the shower.
278. Make your own clothes with a sheet. Find an old sheet and start a competition with one of your siblings. See who can make the best article of clothing with the sheet and scissors.
279. Create life-size replicas of you and your family members. Lie down on a sheet and draw around your body, then cut it out. Put it on a piece of cardboard so it stays up, then decorate it with clothes and a face.
280. Sew together clothes for your stuffed animals. Use your old clothes to cut and sew back together into smaller, animal clothes. These can also be used for pets.
281. Make your own perfect walking stick. Find a large piece of wood or stick outside. Paint and decorate it to your liking. Use it on hikes to be the coolest cat on the trail.
282. Make your own secret lotion to cure boredom. Mix glitter and food coloring into hand cream. When you rub it on your arm, your boredom will automatically disappear.
283. Draw out a five-year plan on what you expect yourself to be dressed like depending on what you’re doing. Dress yourself in your career goal attire and keep it to see if it ends up being real.
284. Learn how to make a fish tail braid on yourself of someone else. Divide the hair into two sections. Pull a tiny strand from the outside of a section and move it inwards to join the other section. Repeat with the other side until the fishtail is complete. This will be a useful skill if you ever find yourself in the Hunger Games.
285. Make your own movie tickets before you watch a movie. Cut them out to look like classic movie tickets, then decorate them with the movie title, glitter, and your name. Make sure to add V.I.P. and walk down the red carpet to your living room.
286. Write love notes for your family members to read in a year. Once they reread them, you can both see how your feelings may have changed or stayed the same. Either way, it’ll be a fun growing experience in craft form.
287. Decorate your diary cover. Use glitter, stickers, drawings, and whatever else you think represents yourself. No diary? Time to start!
288. Draw out your family tree as if it’s a tree. Start with the main branches and add little twigs until you get to the youngest people in your family. Send a picture to your family and see how they like it.
289. Create a stamp of your own name letter. Cut out the first letter of your name in foam. Glue a small piece of wood to the top to use to press down. Dip it in ink or paint and press away.
290. Make your own postcard to send to a friend. Decorate it with all the places you’ve been together. Write on the back, address it, add a stamp, and put it in the mailbox.
291. Make your own giant Jenga set. Paint blocks of wood of the same size your favorite color. Once they’re dry, stack them up in alternating directions like Jenga. Play an oversized game and watch your head.
292. Make your own eye pillow. Cut out two sheets of felt or fabric in the shape of an oval. Sew them together except for a bit at the top. Fill it with cotton and close the gap. Attach an elastic to the back and go to bed.
293. Build a treehouse outside. This may require parental supervision or help. Use wood and nails to make a fortress either on the ground beside a tree or in the tree.
294. Make a zipline for your Lego people. Set up a string from one corner of your room to the other. Then, attach your Lego person’s arms around the string and watch them glide down.
295. Make a miniature snow fort with marshmallows. Lay the first row of marshmallows, then use a lighter to melt them together. Once they harden, they’ll be a join wall. Then, add another row until the wall gets higher and higher.
296. Create a gummy bear pyramid. Set them side by side, then add more and more layers until they look like they’re the best cheerleaders in the country.
297. Do nail art on each other. Use tape to get clean lines and a nail art pen to draw out designs. Add glitter and topcoat to finish them off.
298. Create your own pencil roll. Cut out a long piece of felt. Place ten pencils along the felt one inch apart. Put a strip of glue between each pencil. Press a smaller sheet of felt over the pencils and press in where the glue is. Once it dries, roll it up and you have a pencil roll.
299. Build your own tent for house mice (they need somewhere to sleep too). Create two triangles with popsicle sticks and glue. Attach them together at the top with one popsicle stick. Drape felt on the sides and front but add a slit in the front and back for mice to get in and out of.
300. Make a stop-motion movie with Lego or stuffed animals. Take a picture of the actors in one position, then move them ever so slightly and take another. Keep going as they move through a scene. Put all the pictures together and go through them quickly to create your own short movie.
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