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A Flowered Tambourine Project - Decorate your tambourine by gently folding the paperplate over so the sides meet. Decorate each halfby tracing and coloring flowers and leaves. You canalso gently brush some paint on the flowers, or leavesand press them onto the plate. Write your name onthe plate. Let your plate dry then fold your plate ...

A Kid's Chalk Board Table - The materials we used: coffee table wood putty 4 pastel acrylic paints-yellow, pink, blue and yellow one can blackboard spray paint Kilz acrylic primer paint brushes sandpaper or sander regular black spray paint Wash your table if it's dirty or dusty and allow it to dry. Take off the legs if theyare ...

A Rainy Day Camping Kit - You will need: Plastic Tub-at least large enough to lay notebook or construction paper, and tall enough to hold all of your items. Crayons, colored pencils, markers and #2 pencils-place these in a resealable bag to lay fairly flat in the tub.

A Special Pencil Box - You'll need: a cardboard pencil box, or cigar box paint glue (Elmer's or craft glue) water Contact paper Optional: paint, magazine cutouts, stickers The first part of this project is to be done with your children. Help them paint the box a base color-any favorite color will do. Allow it to dry. At ...

Nature games and activities at the treehouse

Children live in a world of imagination and feeling -
They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please,
and see in it whatever they wish to see.

~Oehlenschlager~

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Let's not forget that our children need old fashioned activities, crafts andfamily activities in their lives so they can be "kids" as long as possible!The great thing about the traditional Treehouse is that it didn't haveelectricity, video games or television. It was a great place to read, writeand dream of those things that all children dream of. 

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