Make these fun, jolly giraffes with paper tubes and pipe cleaners.
Giraffes live in the grasslands of the African savannas. They are the tallest animals on earth!
Follow the directions below to make your own fun, jolly giraffes.
Jolly Giraffes
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Fun Little Turtles
Make these fun little turtles with plastic fruit cups.
Turtles use their hard shells for protection from predators. They can tuck-in their head and legs to hide and stay safe. Some turtles can live to be over one hundred years old!
Crafty Ghost Crabs
Make these fun little ghost crabs with plastic Pringles lids.
Ghost crabs can be found on warm beaches near the water’s edge. They like to burrow into the sand during the day and scurry out at night to look for food. Follow the directions below to make these adorable ghost crabs.
Fun Frog Craft
Make these fun frogs with paper cups and bottle caps.
Frogs can be found in many different colors around the world. They like to live in ponds, swamps, and sometimes trees. Follow the directions below to make your own colorful frogs.
Sandpiper Craft
Make these adorable sandpipers with recycled egg cartons.
Sandpipers are shorebirds that live along beaches, estuaries, and mudflats. Did you know that sandpipers use their long beaks to poke into the sand and look for food?
Follow the directions below to make your own sandpipers.
Monkey Recycled Craft
Make these fun monkeys with recycled paper tubes and plastic lids.
Monkeys like the spider monkey live in tropical rainforests. They like to swing from the vines of trees and eat fruit and seeds. Follow the directions below to make your own adorable monkeys.
Easy Owl Craft for Fall
Make these fun little owls with recycled paper tubes and coffee filters.
Owls are present all year round. But they tend to be louder in the Fall with their hooting noises as they establish their territories before winter. They can be aggressive predators of mice, frogs, and even small rabbits! But it’s undeniable that they are also very cute. Follow the directions below for these adorable, nocturnal birds.
Oyster Treasure Box Craft
Make these oyster reef treasure boxes with recycled egg cartons.
This egg carton treasure box celebrates the oyster reef! An oyster reef is a place where sea animals find food, shelter and protection from predators. Oyster reefs also play an important role in the environment by filtering and cleaning the water. This oyster treasure box comes complete with friendly oysters, a sea worm, skillet fish, mudcrab and pearls!
Beach Scented Air Fresheners
June has finally arrived and with it all of its summertime scents. There’s the delicious aroma coming from barbeques and cookouts, and the familiar smells of fresh cut grass, chlorine from pools, and most of all the familiar summertime scent of sunscreen.
My kids love the smell of sunscreen. The moment they smell it, they can’t stop talking about going to our local pool, to the beach or to the park for summer picnics and bike rides. So, I thought it would be fun this summer to find a way to put the scent of summer throughout the house by using their favorite sunscreen as an air freshener! Continue reading “Beach Scented Air Fresheners”
Nature Photo Activity
Make these nature inspired photo frames from recycled materials.
My favorite season is the Spring. I love all the new life and new blooms on the trees, and every year I take lots of pictures of the kids in front of the new brightly colored trees that were so cold and bare just a few weeks ago. This year I decided to let the kids have a chance to be the photographers and take lots of pictures of their own. So, each with a camera in hand, they went out into the neighborhood to take pictures of nature. Continue reading “Nature Photo Activity”