As play experts (and parents, educators, and caregivers ourselves), Chicago Children’s Museum staffers love arts and crafts stores. Once you step past those magical doors, you find pipe cleaners of all shapes and sizes, wood, rubber, and metal to tinker with, any type of paintbrush you can imagine, and more. An arts and crafts store is a play supply paradise.
But, it’s a paradise we can’t get to these days. Between negotiating work, childcare, and back-to-school prep like no other year, parents and caregivers don’t have a lot of time to stock their homes with play supplies.
That’s what makes today’s at home activity so brilliant: You already have everything you need.
Watch as Kim Koin, Director of Art & Tinkering Lab Studios at Chicago Children’s Museum, share her favorite ways to tinker with paper. Turn your junk mail into a shark tank, build a paper amusement park the perfect size for an ant, and explore what you can build and create with whatever paper you have lying around the house.
