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What is a simple summer fan design for little children?
“The greatest happiness of summer days is ice cream and melon”. Sun, summer, ice cream and refreshing summer fruits like watermelons and melons sound perfect – especially for kids. We are once again moving to the creative corner and creating a DIY PAPER HAND FAN with “my little puzzles” in the theme of summer fruits. Everything we need you will find in your locker and it’s completely free. Popsicle sticks we collected from the ice cream when we enjoyed every summer day until today. The red and green paper is in my eldest son’s cupboard and markers, if you have children, you probably have plenty. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/how-do-children-make-airplanes-from-popsicle-sticks/ What little puzzles will…
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I WISH TO BE MY CHILDREN’S SHADOW
“Magnificent childhood is not childhood locked in a safe bubble.” Last time we did a little experiment with my kids. From time to time, we try to send our children outside alone and watch them from the balcony. They really like to be independent, especially my 6-year-old son and I’m just afraid to leave them alone. They push me, more and more often, to give them freedom outside. Then I have to prepare one and the same protective story for their safety: “Children, what will happen and what to do if a stranger comes and asks you to go with him to the car, bus, or restaurant?“ Children answer: “We…
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How do children create a flying butterfly out of paper?
“Don’t limit your children’s full potential and give them free choice.” There were plans to make a fly ladybug from paper but with my children you don’t plan, with my children you create what comes to mind at a given moment. After many years of experience, I endorse this ideology of unplanned DIY projects. My kids choose the crafts themselves, so don’t expect them to ask for anything, such as getting a drink or wiping the glue off their shirts. Sit quietly on the sofa, relax, and be amazed that your children create something beautiful together. The DIY projects of “my little puzzles” do not require any cost from you.…
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How do children make colorful umbrellas?
“I prefer living in color.”David Hockney In our wonderful, tiny mountain village ( Frydlant nad Ostravici ) we have the return of winter, there is a lot of snow and it is still falling. My children ask me every time the frost and snow return, will it be Christmas again? The Christmas tree in their room is still up, so it seems like Christmas never stopped. I spend a lot of time outside with the kids and maybe we would spend more, but it gets gray and gloomy so quickly. Our mornings are no longer with beautiful sun, but with snow. Every January day we miss this sun and colors, but…
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How to use dry rice in children’s DIY projects?
In the creative corner of “my little puzzles”, we often use materials to create works of art, that we have in the cupboards at home. My children like projects in which they realize themselves and come up with patterns, sketches, colors, and projects according to their ideas. For very cool and simple DIY projects you can use dry pasta https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/how-children-create-a-pasta-bracelet-from-dry-pasta/ or dry rice. I dye this material in different colors the day before so that it dries. And next day I already give my children a colorful and dry product to create.This project works well when you want to keep children occupied for 1 to 2 hours and not worry…
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What Easter Bunny project is best for small children?
“The Easter Bunny job – proves that my children can find chocolates everywhere.” In our village surrounded by mountains spring does not visit us in March at all. It’s warmer now, but rainy and dirty. I still have a DIY Valentine’s card design in my head, https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/what-do-children-create-on-valentines-day-2/ and “my little puzzles” are already convincing me that they want to start Easter projects. Patrick and Dorothy are delighted with the Easter eggs on all store shelves. Chocolate bunnies have been in my basket a few times during family shopping, but I managed to put them back on the shelf. And in Nursery, they are already creating several Easter projects with teachers.…
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How the children made a jumping bunny out of paper?
“EVERYBUNNY NEEDS SOMEBUNNY SOMETIMES” I’d like to say that it’s spring outside the window, but I will lie. The snow and frost are back again, which of course is amazing for my kids. They have another snowball fight and come home drenched. However, this does not change the fact that my children have lost all their energy. In the afternoon, when they are at home, they still want fun or creativity. Very often my older son jumps, runs and behaves like the rabbit from the “Duracell battery” ad. This gave me the idea to create with my “little puzzles” a DIY PAPER BUNNY. But not a calm, cute bunny sleeping…
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What do children create on Valentine’s Day?
My “little puzzles” started the Valentine craze during the winter holidays. The power of creation has also passed to my goddaughter and in a creative corner, we will present as many as 3 artistic crafts. The youngest Dorothy will take care of gluing, her favorite form of creating art. Patrick needs to have a more complex and preferably more dangerous project because he loves using paper staplers. And Victoria created a card with a magically changing color heart. This time surprise for adults – print your own love coupons ⇊ click here ⇊ What little puzzles will be created today? CARDS FOR VALENTINE What my little puzzles don’t need? DISTURBING PARENTS…
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What children can create with plastic bottles and straws?
There were plans, as always, to make a paper animal other than a spider. With my son, you don’t plan, with my son we create what comes to his mind at a given moment. Patrick now chooses shapes, colors, and the entire handicraft design. Original design idea, it was about a ladybug or a bird or anything else but not a spider. However, since I prefer children to choose what they create and use their own imagination, I accepted the spider with feigned delight. The DIY projects of “my little puzzles” do not require any cost from you. They are usually made of items intended for recycling (plastic bottles) or…
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How do children make Christmas trees from pine cones?
“Good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us”. – Roy Adzak My little puzzles and I took a trip to the forest to collect nature’s beautiful gifts – pine cones, for our Christmas projects. Then we went with my son to his favorite decorating store. We bought everything we needed to make our DIY art: more glues, paints, glitters, strings, pom poms, and colored paper. When my son picks glitter colors, I notice a lot of Christmas stuff around. I stopped next to the shelf with front door decorations. These door decorations are made of plastic, green Christmas tree branches with plastic bells and…
