DIY Toys

Our Creative Week

March 1, 2013
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Our Creative Week is a snapshot of the activities that have kept us occupied over the past week, some are impromptu projects, others more planned. Hope this inspires your creative week. Baby Leon is almost here and I wanted to post one more Creative Week before we go on a short baby break! Here is what we have been up [...]

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DIY Toy: Tin Can Stilts

January 31, 2013
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I love Amy Sedaris. She is one of those unique personalities that have made a career of just being her quirky, funny self. So I laughed out loud when I was flipping through a copy of her tongue in cheek crafting book Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People and saw my next planned DIY toy project [...]

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Our Creative Week

January 21, 2013
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Our Creative Week is a snapshot of the activities that have kept us occupied over the past week, some are impromptu projects, others more planned. Hope this inspires your creative week. We’ve been so sick! I guess it was bound to catch up with us but the week has been rough for the whole family especially this pregnant mama [...]

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DIY Toy: Paper Helicopter

January 16, 2013
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Here’s a quick and easy DIY toy to make today:  Paper Helicopters! I was initially inspired to make these after seeing them in The Best of Making Things. I also found this great tutorial on the Exploratorium’s website. If you haven’t checked out their site before it’s got some wonderful ideas. Here’s how to make these [...]

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Our Creative Week

January 14, 2013
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Our Creative Week is a snapshot of the activities that have kept us occupied over the past week, some are impromptu projects, others more planned. Hope this inspires your creative week. This week the kids returned to school and some of our creative energy got sucked up just getting back into the swing of things. Still, I try to [...]

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DIY Toy: Zappy Zoomers

December 20, 2012
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Here’s another DIY toy idea to keep the kiddos occupied duirng the long winter break Zappy Zoomers! Let me just start with the fact that prying my son away from away from video games this first week of winter break has been a challenge…..I managed to convince him to do this project with me the other [...]

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DIY Toy-Rope Climbers

December 1, 2012
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We love DIY toys around our house and making toys is often as much fun as playing with them! In fact I might suggest that the true fun of this project is in the making….This little ditty is from our fave, Usborne’s Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do. Rope Climbing Toy Materials: Heavy [...]

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DIY Art Materials: Recycled Crayons

November 16, 2012
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A project that involves color and melting…..we’re on it! This project is all over the internet; I referenced the following two tutorials: My Very Educated Mother and Make & Takes Here are the steps I used: Preheat your oven to 275 degrees Take old crayon pieces and remove the paper. My daughter found this to be a fun task, [...]

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DIY Art Materials: Homemade Playdough

October 16, 2012

I once read that any self-respecting craft/design blog must have a recipe for play-dough in its archives so mine will be no exception! I’m starting a series on DIY toys and why not begin with an all-time favorite? It’s almost hard to believe that play-dough is actually a rather recent toy in the history of [...]

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DIY Toy: Pinwheels

October 11, 2012
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Want to make a DIY toy that is so easy you won’t believe you haven’t made them before? You have found it: the pinwheel!   While most of the country is facing a cold snap, up until yesterday we were still wearing shorts and T-shirts here in SoCal. So making a few pinwheels the other day [...]

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