Here is some basic information and supplies needed when making duct tape crafts. Supplies Cutting Board: Craft Stores sell self-healing mats with grid lines that help make measuring easy and protect the surface you are working on. Usually these are located in the paper crafting supplies aisle Hole Punch: Although you can use any hole punch, […]
Polymer clay, such as Sculpey III or Fimo Round wooden screw-on dresser knobs Small, heat-resistant trinkets or beads Permanent colored markers  Knead the clay until it is malleable, then flatten pieces of it into 5/8-inch-thick “pancakes.” Wrap the pancakes around the knobs, firmly pressing the clay to the wood to make it stick. Now […]
 1. Give your child a piece of paper and a crayon. Show him how to lay the paper over something rough (like a large rock) and hold it in place. 2. Now take the paper wrapping off the crayon, and let your child rub it back and forth on the paper, using the side […]
Book: Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy Some heroes fly, others scale tall buildings and one very special one wears a red tutu, and ladybug wings. This heroine doesn’t battle crime or clean up the streets she handles the real life issues of young children on the playground. Who could it be but Ladybug Girl? The […]
True pointillism may be a little more refined than this. But with a giant make-it-yourself stamp pad and an array of circular printables, your little one can turn plain paper into a delirium of dots. Â Large sponge Washable, nontoxic tempera paint Paper Masking tape Circle makers, such as Bubble Wrap, cotton balls, Q-tips, potatoes […]
Babies: Birth to One Year  Experts agree that even babies need an assortment of toys. Since infants respond to smell, taste, sound, touch and sight, properly selected toys provide a small baby with opportunities to learn about size, shape, sound, texture and how things work.  Choose toys that:  Have pieces that are […]
AGES: Seven to 12  Build a catapult to test the relationship between the angle of release and the distance traveled by a catapulted object – a 2d vector. Two-dimensional vectors are diagrammatically represented as two arrows beginning from the same point, one traveling horizontally and the other vertically. They offer a way to organize […]
