Kids' Boredom Buster Crafts!
Kids home for summer break? Join Lifestyle expert Amy E. Goodman and she shares easy crafts you can do with things you have at home on Live Kelly & Mark! Watch the segment and crafts in step-by-step action here.
REGAL EAGLES
It’s Presidents’ Day and what better way to honor our presidents past and present than with a Regal Eagle craft, personalized with an outline of parents’ and kids’ hands!
What you’ll need:
brown lunch bag
red, blue, white and yellow construction paper
glue stick or white glue
scissors
pencil
3-D FLORAL PAINTING
It takes just 5 minutes to cut up these flower petals from 4 paper plates into increasingly smaller flower “petals” and staple them together.
Then using watercolors or any kind of paint or pens, and have kids paint them.
You can curl up the petals using a marker.
What you’ll need:
white paper plates
scissors
stapler
paints, crayons, colored markers, stampers, glitter, poms
What you’ll need:
Butcher paper or a cut open brown, grocery bag
color pencils, color markers
cars and toys to decorate
FLYING ACE
I LOVE THIS for many reasons. The kids have to fold several paper airplanes for this activity. Mom can get creative with the size of the holes and the points. Once it is hung up with wall-safe tape, the kids will have fun playing this interactive game.
(One hole should say: give mom a massage!)
What You’ll Need:
Poster board paper
Scissors
Different-sized plates (to trace the size of the holes)
Sharpie or color marker
Tape
SPRING DAFFODILS
This craft repurposes used food containers among other things, and is a sweet harbinger of spring or summer!
What You’ll Need:
popsicle sticks or large craft sticks
green paint
or green straws (from a coffee store we know)
yellow construction paper
scissors
tape
cleaned applesauce or to-go sauce containers
or yellow or white paper muffin cups
STEM BALLOON ROCKETS
This is an engaging activity for kids of all ages, but it also has a science lesson take-home for the older kids with Newton’s Third Law of Motion. Young kids will UBER delight in this too and ask to do it over and over and over.
What You’ll Need:
balloons
tape
1/2-1/3 or a straw, cut
fishing wire
air pump (optional)