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Lunch Bag Puppet
Kid's Sample A child in elementary school generates ~67 lbs of total pacackaging waste per year, including brown paper bags. Meaning, an average elementary school generates ~18.7k lbs of waste on this area in a year! Today we will be leaning how to make puppets out of used (hopefully not super dirty) paper lunch bags! This craft is perfect for after school when your kids come back home with their own paper bags from lunch with some free time on their hands. This craft is one
Joanna Jiao
Aug 152 min read


Watercolor Blow Art
Image by Adventure-in-a-Box Each day, Americans are estimated to use 500 million plastic straws. Being amongst the top 10 contributors of plastic pollution, it's crazy that it's also such an easy component of our daily lives (and our kids!) we could reduce and even eliminate. Today, I will be showing you guys a simple watercolor blow art without plastic or even wasting paper straws. Kids' Samples Materials (w/ substitutions in parenthesis) A4 paper (watercolor paper) watercol
Joanna Jiao
Aug 112 min read


Egg Carton Portraits
This project combines Arts & Crafts in a very fun way, and also you can make several out of just one used up egg carton (8 if you're making bunny ears, the whole dozen if you're drawing in your own ears or doing another animal) Materials: (w/ substitutions in parenthesis) 1 used egg carton A4 paper (any paper, cardstock is actually better) acrylic paint (any paint/opaque medium) thin sharpie scissors glue Step 1: See the 4 peaks that protrude out of the empty carton? Those
Joanna Jiao
Aug 102 min read


Paper Squishies
If you're a parent or kid or really anyone that is on social media, you've been aware of the new craze for squishies. Actually, squishies/stress balls have been popular and around for more than a decade, but lately, the production and hype around these toys are both increasing dramatically. Almost all squishies (the most popular dumpling stress balls, for example) are made of thermoplastic rubber (TPR) or polyurethane (PU) foam. Both materials are non-degradable and time-cons
Joanna Jiao
Aug 93 min read
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