Heart Paper Flower Craft

As a parent of a kindergarten, preschool or daycare child, you often have opportunities to express your gratitude to their teachers for their love and care in the school.

This could be more formal in the form of teacher appreciation days or casual when you feel like it. Teachers work very hard to take care of our children and they deserve our unreserved appreciation.

Last week was bring a flower day at our daughter's preschool, this mother-daughter duo decided to make this very lovely heart flower paper craft. We loved how easy and elegant these ended-up looking.

They were easy and quick to make and after the paper cutting something our daughter could put together on her own. She quite enjoyed putting the paper hearts and pipe cleaners together for the beautiful look. Our daughter took these to school in the morning and gave a flower to each of her teachers with a thank you hug!

Try these out and see your child's teacher feel appreciated.

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This lovely flower craft also makes for an easy Mother's day craft idea or a spring theme craft project. Moms would love getting a bouquet of their kid-made colorful heart flowers.

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Easy Science Experiments for Kids

With the kids being home more and everyone doing a few more things inside this time of year, it's time to think outside the box and use these easy science experiments to do at home.   All of these fun activities and ideas are easy to do at home and are done using supplies that you already have in the house. This means no more running to the store for an item that caught you off guard once you started!

If you're looking for some activities that are fun and educational, you're going to love the fun and unique options below. They're all easy to do and they have great educational value with them as well!

Not only are these ideas for science project a great way to keep their minds working but they're also something that they can use and continue to be creative with, too. Fill your house with these fun science activities for kids so that you keep fostering their love for creativity and curiosity.

25+ SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS FOR KIDS

The kids are going to have a blast creating all these fun science experiments using everyday items you have lying around the house.

1. Electrolysis of Water

Such a fun idea to introduce electrolysis of water to young kids. Kid will totally enjoy the process and get fascinated by the water bubbles generated by electric current separating the two gases.

2. Cleaning pennies with ketchup

Teach the kids how reactions work with this cleaning pennies with ketchup activity! Such a simple and educational activity for the kids.

3. Rainbow Lemon Volcano

This Rainbow Lemon Volcano shows the kids just how fun it can be to use everyday items around the house to learn.

4. Fireworks in a Glass

Who knew that making fireworks in a glass was such a readily available activity to do at home?!

5. Teaching Kids About Tooth Decay

There are so many ways that your kids will love learning about tooth decay with this fun activity.

6. Dissolving, Expanding, and Bouncing Egg Science Experiment

Eggs are supposed to be fragile but this experiment showcases them in a whole new light!

7. Celery and Food Coloring Science Experiment

This is a fun science activity to show kids how the water travels through the celery once absorbed.

8. Rain Cloud in a Jar

Use this rain cloud in a jar to show the kids how water and rain can move using bright and fun colors.

9. Make Oobleck

Messy play is a good play and this oobleck recipe will teach the kids how to make their very own oobleck to have at home.

10. Simple Skittles Experiment

This skittles experiment is still one of the most fun and tastiest activities out there!

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DIY Paper Mask Craft for Kids

Making a mask is a fun, easy and inexpensive way for children and even adults to prepare for a party. Since New Year's Eve is so close, we decided to make these fun mask to celebrate the new year.  This DIY party mask also makes a perfect New Year's Eve craft and activities for kids to do on new year's eve.

Complete your kid's New Year's Eve attire with this super cute paper mask! This also makes a cute mask idea for kids to celebrate Mardi Gras.

Don't forget to check our New Year's Eve Craft board on Pinterest for more awesome ideas to keep kids busy on the New Year's Eve.

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Paper Plate Wheel Calendar

I have been thinking of introducing calendar to my toddler for some time. Then I thought, why not do it as a craft activity?

Spent some time thinking about how one could represent the functionality of a calendar via craft and something interesting came from it. Making this craft turned out to be a real fun activity. In the process of crafting this, my toddler got to sort numbers and recognize words.

Most importantly I can now teach her about the relationship between date, day and month in a simple,  playful manner.

Here is the Paper Plate Wheel Calendar craft.

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Interactive paper plate crafts are my favorite. The Solar Eclipse Craft we made after the total solar eclipse last year is such a great idea for preschooler and kindergarten kids.

I also love the interactive Paper Plate Bunny Craft we made around Easter to encourage the importance of chewing food well and eating healthy foods like carrots.

Theseinteractive crafts are fun for storytelling and introducing any concepts to little kids. Also, it makes great DIY toys for free play.

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HOW TO MAKE CALENDAR CRAFT?

SUPPLIES

• Paper Plate 9" (2) 
• Paper Plate 6" (1) 
• Cardstock Paper (pink, blue, green, black) 
• Pipe Cleaner
• Bead (1) 
• Black Marker
• Scissor
• Glue

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut the edges of one 9" and one 6" inch paper plate to make 6.5" & 4.5" circles. 

2. Cut out the shapes for writing dates, days and months. Alternatively, you can write them directly on the paper plate. 

4. Cut out the shape of an arrow pointer from black cardstock paper.

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Fruit Basket Craft

It is so important to educate little kids about healthy food choices. Why fruits and vegetables should be an important part of their daily diet? How healthy food plays an important role in keeping us fit and healthy?

Fresh fruits contain vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are vital to health and help fight illness. This fruit basket activity is a fun way to talk about the importance of healthy eating for preschoolers.

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Father's Day Craft

Children have a special relationship with their father. While mothers are their emotional anchors, fathers are often their exploration anchors. Being around a father mostly means playtime or crazy fun activity time. All because fathers enjoy nothing else more than seeing a smile on their children's face.

So, this fathers day, we decided to craft one father-child activity special - the high toss. This is one of the most enduring moments for dads and tots. It was fun creating this craft and brought up happy memories for when our toddler was under 2 years and enjoyed soaring through the air only to land in the safe comfort of dad's arms.

So, what's your favorite dad-child activity?

Happy crafting!

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Dinosaur Handprint Card

Dad, You're Dino-mite!

Father's day 2022 is on June 19th, so what craft are you planning to make with your kids?

You might remember this dinosaur art we posted a few weeks ago and how much my daughter loves dinosaur. We recently watched the movie 'The Good Dinosaur' with her and she loved the cute interactions between dino and the kid.

For the love of dinosaurs, made these adorable dinosaur handprint card with my daughter to gift to her Daddysaurus. She enjoyed creating the handprint tracings and putting the googly-eyes/pom-pom spots to give it a nice personality.

These dinosaurs are shaped like the majestic diplodocuses & apatosaurus, which are friendly and herbivorous along with being super large. Kids love them. They are very much like Dads are for their kids - large, safe, warm and friendly.

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Cardboard Egg Easter Crafts

Have fun-at-home with these cute Easter crafts!

Do you know that these crafts are made of cardboard eggs? Aren’t cardboard eggs a great eco-friendly alternative to plastic eggs? I found these cardboard eggs at Oriental Trading.

They are very similar to plastic ones, you can open the eggs and fill them with goodies for kids. Best part is kids can color the eggs, decorate them and have fun finding them in Easter egg hunt for special surprises.

We created these crafts as a sponsored Instagram post for Oriental Trading Company. We hope you will enjoy making these crafts with kids.

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Printable Easter Paper Craft

It's the time of the year to get crafty with Easter crafts. Get ready to hop with this cute and easy paper craft that kids can make at school or at home.

This is a fun and simple activity with printable template to get kids excited for Easter. I absolutley love the 3D effect of this basket.

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Colorful Handprint Holi Card

The Indian festival of colors, Holi, is just around the corner. This year, Holi, will be on 8th March, 2023.

On this day, people of all ages come together to put beautiful colors on each other using natural or artificial powders and paints. Kids fill up water balloons and pichkari (water syringes) to splash their friends and sometimes even strangers!

Adults usually play with colors in the morning and then spend the afternoon and evening with friends and family over lunch and oral, board or card games. It is a time of fun and enjoyment for everyone. Anyone who has played Holi will usually have fond memories of it lasting years.

To commemorate this year's Holi festival, we decided to make a super easy yet colorful handprint Holi card.

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Holi Bonfire Card

Holi is a popular festival in India. It celebrates the end of the winter season and the arrival of spring.

Holika Dahan (Bonfire) is an important ritual associated with the Holi festival. Holika Dahan or the lighting of the bonfire takes place on the eve of Holi. People gather and perform religious rituals in front of the bonfire.

According to Hindu mythology, Holi celebrates the killing of Holika (sister of the demon king Hiranyakashipu) by god Vishnu in order to save his devotee Prahlad. And, Holi gets its name from Holika.

To educate my daughter about this ritual, we made this cute bonfire craft for kids.

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Paper Plate Frog With Moving Tongue

Did you know there are over 5000 species of frogs? Or some frogs can jump 20 times their size or that some species like poison dart frogs are poisonous?

Frogs are fascinating animals for everyone but especially for children. They come in so many colors and have quite a few entertaining characteristics. They hop or jump everywhere. They are amphibious - meaning they can live on the land or in the water. That’s a fun ability!

Have you seen a frog eat? They have super long sticky tongues that they use to catch food such as flies or small insects. It’s quite something to watch them go about getting their belly full with just the tongue.

This movement is so fast often the prey doesn't have a chance to escape. A frog's tongue can snap back into its mouth within 15/100ths of a second.

After our popular Chomp Chomp Bunny Craft, we found that frog meal time actually makes for a fun craft activity for preschool children at school, art classes or home.

All you need is a paper plate and basic craft supplies and you are all set to make your very own “Eat Eat Frog Toy”. Have fun and learn too.

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