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Backyard Summer Camp: Crafts Theme

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My kids love to craft! I love to craft too, which is why I just bought a Cricut, but back to kids crafts. These are all crafts that you can do inside or outside. You never no when you might get a few days or a week of rain and a crafts theme in the house are perfect for this time.

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Backyard Summer Camp: Crafts

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I don’t believe that we should have our kids scheduled for every minute of everyday. My kids don’t expect me to entertain them. I’m pretty sure that the only time they tell me that they are bored and expect me to entertain them is why I am doing something very exciting, like cleaning a toilet. Yes, apparently that is my kids idea of a fun time.

Crafts for Your Backyard Camp

Tye Dye – Have you done tye dying with you kids yet? I didn’t realize under the fall past that we hadn’t. I don’t care for the look of tye dye, nor the staining mess. But my kids enjoyed it.

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I don't know what you do on Sunday mornings but apparently here we tye dye. The girls are dying some curtains for their bedroom. Adding flair to a boring white (rental) bedroom. . . . #homeschoollife #artandcraftforkids #creativeplay #creativity #handsonlearning #homedecor

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Decorate a Tote Bag – For my daughter’s 10th birthday I went a different way for the activity at her party. I gave the kids canvas tote bags and fabric markers. That’s it, they made their own tote bag for whatever they wanted to use it for. They are great for hauling library books.

Craft Stick Bracelet – I have big plans to do this with my kids this summer, I even bought the craft sticks to do it. Edited to add: We did it! The perfect rainy day craft.

Craft Stick Bracelets on wrist

Puffy Paint – Did you know, you can make your own paint with flour? We have been making this for a long time!

Sidewalk Chalk Paint – I haven’t made this for quite some time, but we have been lacking chalk drawing/writing surfaces lately.

Salt Painting – This is a fun, but simple craft you can do inside or out.

“Draw” a picture with your glue, a flower maybe? Sprinkle salt over the wet glue, covering it completely. Once dry tip the cardstock to remove excess salt. Use your watercolors to gently touch the salt. Watch the color magically spread.

Yarn Wrapping Letters – Make this super simple craft decoration with your kids. They can do the first letter of their name to hang on their wall. I would recommend cutting the cardboard for young kids so no one gets hurts.

Tape an end of yarn to the back of your letter and wind it around the letter, or even shape, until you have covered it completely, or as much as your child likes. You can use different types and colors of yarn to make your letter as unique as you.

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