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Make my cute kids’ summer craft featuring cicadas! Yep, cute cicadas. This easy print, cut, and glue activity is a great summer craft idea for elementary-age and preschooler. Kids can make paper cicada friends, learn about their lifecycle, play pretend, make them into art, or hide them for an outdoor hide-and-seek scavenger hunt (our pick!).

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Make an interactive pretend campfire and s’mores play set to bring camping fun indoors, rain or shine! This cute paper craft project features a toasty campfire with wood-grain logs surrounded by a stone ‘safety’ ring for kids to toast pretend marshmallows until they’re golden brown. Keep reading to see how to download the free printable …

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Get ready for your school’s Valentine’s Day party with my funny Valentine’s Day Jokes free printable classroom valentines for kids! My free printable valentines jokes make great handmade classroom valentines and lunchbox notes. I’m giving you all the free printable templates to make your own Valentine’s Day jokes cards to give to your favorite kids, …

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Try this Easter Egg painting idea with paint pens – it’s a fun and easy DIY for kids and adults! These paint pen Easter eggs are so pretty that this Easter we’re totally passing up PAAS and decorating all of our eggs with paint pen markers. My three-year-old (and budding contemporary artist), Elise, decorated this …

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Spring is already here and my Must Make This Someday List is really filling up. I totally have ‘eyes bigger than my stomach’ syndrome when it comes to crafting. So I’ve decided to round up another DIY or Buy this time featuring three DIY stepping stone tutorials *plus* some cute handmade options to buy. If …

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This original Fourth of July craft was created for Daily Candy Kids. Welcome, Daily Candy readers! I mourn sparklers. The City of Chicago banned sparklers in 2007 joining most other ousted fireworks.  Yes, I understand that sparklers can be dangerous especially for small children yet my nostalgia for dancing sparks runs deep. What’s a Fourth …

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