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Kids' Boredom Buster Crafts!

Amy Goodman

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.

Here are 4 plates in decreasing size of flower petals, and one completed and stapled together.

What you’ll need:

  • white paper plates

  • scissors

  • stapler

  • paints, crayons, colored markers, stampers, glitter, poms

My daughter and I painted these together.

FANTASY LAND

Using butcher paper, color pencils and some creativity, create a fantasy town complete with connecting roads, parking lots and the like for kids to drive their toy cars around and around. I loved my cars as a little girl and would have played with this for hours!

What you’ll need:

  • Butcher paper or a cut open brown, grocery bag

  • color pencils, color markers

  • cars and toys to decorate

Here’s a School.

A Farm

A Must-Have for Mama: a Coffee Shop!

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)