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At Home Activity: Upcycled Bird Feeders

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Is anyone else going through groceries like never before? Staying at home means more meals at home, and more meals at home means more empty containers.

That’s where today’s at-home activity comes in. It shows how you and your littles can take an empty milk carton, egg carton, or even a clean takeout container and create a bird feeder. From there, your little ones can be in charge of refilling the feeder and keeping track of which birds visit it.

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At Home Activity: Crystal Painting

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At Home Activity: Crystal Painting

Epsom salts are great for grownup bath time—but did you know that they also make for an easy, low maintenance art activity for your kiddos?

Today’s at home art activity for children takes everyday materials you have at home and turns them into a sparkly painting experience.

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At Home Activity: Cardboard Beads

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Staying at home gives us a lot of opportunity to reimagine what might otherwise be, well, boring.

Take cardboard, for example.

We’re exploring the different ways you and your kids can use the cardboard lying around your houses for fun, valuable play time, like today’s art activity, Cardboard Beads.

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At Home Activity: Build a Ramp

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The uses for empty cardboard boxes seem endless—but they can also be opportunities for trial and error, exploring spatial reasoning, and sharpening measurement skills.

Today’s at home activity encourages your little ones to be their best scientific self by using all three of those skills, and more.

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At Home Activity: Cardboard Tubes

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Toilet paper isn’t as hot a commodity as it was a few weeks ago, but we’ve got one more reason to think twice about this otherwise boring item: the empty cardboard rolls.

Today’s at home activity focuses on another way to upcycle those rolls into a STEM focused, spatial reasoning exercise for your little ones.

So save whatever cardboard rolls you’ve got and let your kids discover their inner architect.