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How to Decorate Rain Sticks With Craft Paper

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Making rain sticks to accompany kids as they dance is a creative activity for a boring afternoon. Let your kids design the sticks by adding a handful of dried beans or beads to an empty paper towel roll and covering the ends with paper. Then ... more »

How to Decorate Rain Sticks With Fabric

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Help your kids create their own musical rain sticks by filling a paper towel tube with rice or small beads. Once you seal the ends with paper, try these ideas to decorate the stick with layers of colorful, soft fabric as an eye-catching touch... more »

How to Decorate Rain Sticks With Felt

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Decorating a rain stick with felt requires a little more work than coloring it with markers or paint. However, the effect of felt on the rain stick is striking, and, depending on how creative you get, affords you many opportunities to create a ... more »

How to Decorate Rain Sticks With Paint

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As the next rainy day activity for your kids, create musical and whimsical rain sticks. Just seal dried beans or rice inside a cardboard paper towel tube, then let the kids get creative and use paint to decorate the instrument with pretty or ... more »

How to Decorate Rain Sticks with Sand

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Sand gives a rain stick a different look and a great texture. Sand is also inexpensive, since you can usually find it project at the beach, in the local park or in your backyard. Colored sand is available at craft stores or you can make your own ... more »

How to Decorate Rain Sticks With Torn Paper

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Let your kids make their own rain sticks to generate cool sound effects. Once you fill a paper towel tube with dried beans or beads and seal the ends with paper, use these methods to decorate the handmade percussion instruments with layers of ... more »

How to Decorate Rain Sticks with Yarn

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Applying yarn to a rain stick can impart a traditional, Native American look to your craft. The yarn can go on the rain stick in any pattern, and you can use a variety of colors. Wrap the entire rain stick in yarn, or just tie bands on the bottom... more »

How to Decorate Your Room with a Dora the Explorer Theme

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Dora the Explorer is one of the most popular shows on Nick Jr. It follows the adventure of Dora and her best friend Boots as they travel looking to solve many different goals. Children love Dora merchandise and they would love to come home to a ... more »

How to Design a Button

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Maybe you're running for class president at school or planning your friend's Sweet 16 birthday party. Whatever the occasion, make it special and memorable and by designing a special button to commemorate the event... more »

How to Design Dandelion Jewelry for Kids

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If you're picnicking in a field full of dandelions or find your yard overrun with the weeds, make the most of the situation by turning the fluffy tops and stems into pretty jewelry for your kids. Let them help you weave them into bracelets, ... more »

How to Do a Tree Rubbing

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Children of all ages will enjoy doing tree rubbings. Take your child on a nature walk and watch as they learn and discover interesting things about trees. Do this as a fun craft or as a science experiment for school or home school projects. The ... more »

How to do Batik Watercolor

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Batik watercolor is a fun craft for any age and when it's done you have a piece of art that can be hung as is or used in a variety of other craft projects. For example, batik watercolor makes great bookmarks or greeting cards... more »

How to do Clay Projects With Kids

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Kids love working with their hands, and there's nothing better for fighting boredom than clay projects. There are a few things kids need to know about clay, and you should have a specified work area. But once you set up the area, the only thing ... more »

How to Do Foil Etching

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Etching on foil is an easy way for even the youngest budding artists to develop their artistic muscles and create a work of art that they can be proud of. Etching a design or picture on foil is so easy and the materials are so inexpensive that ... more »

How to Do Marble Painting with Kids

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Are you looking for a different way to entertain your kids with paint other than with paintbrushes? Try marbles! Don't worry about making a mess with paint soaked marbles rolling all over the room. A shoe box is your answer to that dilemma. ... more »

How to Do Rainy Day Art Projects With Kids

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When you're stuck inside the house on a rainy day, use the time creatively by planning an assortment of craft activities. In addition to keeping the kids entertained, you can use the art and projects they create as future gifts for loved ones, ... more »

How to Do Spin Art

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A retro carnival favorite, you can do spin art at home. Several toy companies offer spin art machines, or you can make or build one from household items that spin. Spin art is an easy, fun and educational activity for children of all ages. Read ... more »

How to Do String Art Painting

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Using string and yarn instead of paintbrushes gives a unique look to any painting. Young and old alike will get a kick out of this fun alternative painting procedure. It's a good experiment in mixing colors and easy to learn... more »

How to Draw a Pattern for a Hand Puppet

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When making a hand puppet, one of the most important steps is to draw a pattern for the puppet. It will take some practice to draw the pattern, but if you follow these steps, you'll know how to draw the pattern... more »

How to Dry Flowers in Desiccant

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Desiccant is a substance that removes moisture from items and can be used to dry flowers easily. It can be found in bags, packets, loose fill and in pads or boards... more »

How to Easy and fun ways to keep the kids busy at Easter

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You will learn how to do one of the easiest and oldest ways of keeping the peace at your house over the Easter holidays. Its also the perfect Easter present... more »

How to Embellish Socks with Beads

By Juliet Myfanwy Johnson

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Those pairs of white socks in your drawer are all piled up and they all look the same. Tired of those dreary plain white socks? Need to have a little fun on a rainy afternoon? Add some bling with a little colored beading... more »

How to Emboss a Rubber Stamp Image

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Rubberstamping is an easy way to create repeatable images for cards, tags and scrapbook pages. Embossing that same image with specialty embossing powders creates a raised, glossy image that stands out on the paper, giving it a finished look. ... more »

How to Fill a Tube for a Rain Stick

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Put a bunch of homemade rain sticks together and you'll hear a variety of sounds. Because of the different fillers in each stick, some will evoke the hush of a soft rain and others may replicate the sound of a driving torrent. Anything small and ... more »

How to Find Free Christmas Printable Coloring Pages Online

By Cyn Vela

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Christmas is just around the corner. If you're trying to figure out ways to keep your kids busy during the day, why not print out some free printable coloring pages for them? There are a number of sites online that provide free Christmas ... more »

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