Month: April 2020

Cloud Soap Experiment

Looking for a fun and easy at-home project? My boys love this Cloud Soap Experiment! They get to watch a bar of Ivory soap expand and cloud up in the microwave — it’s pretty amazing. All you need: At least one bar of IVORY soap A different brand’s bar of soap […]

Get Outside And Make A Nature Loom For Nature Weaving

Large Outdoor Weaving Loom Along time ago these huge sticks fell in our yard after a hard rain.  Can I tell you how much life we have gotten out of them?  I’ll just show you. Okay, this was the only photo I could find, but we have painted the sticks, […]

Cardboard Creativity At Home

This post contains affiliate links, but I’m only recommending my favorite books and tools. I hope you enjoy them as much as me! Even if you’re low on art supplies, you’ve probably got cardboard around the house. Look around! Cereal boxes, diaper boxes, all those Amazon packages — that’s enough […]

Tin Can Stilts: Using Recyclables For Play

Let’s have some fun with recyclables! I found the project above in a Wood Crafts book from the 1970s, and fell in love. It’s something I’d love to do with my campers at Figment this summer! The woodworking is a bit complex for most of us, but I love the […]