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This homemade slushy science experiment is a fun and easy way to teach kids about the changing states of matter. They will also enjoy their own homemade slush in the process!

Science can be a lot of fun for kids when you apply it to things they enjoy. This homemade slushy science experiment is a great way to teach kids about changing states of matter. They will love learning something new, but will also have fun watching their juice turn into a super tasty slushy.

You don't need any special materials for this activity either, they can all be easily found around your home!

Homemade Slushy Science Experiment for Kids

Before you get started with this fun, and tasty, science lesson plan, you want to get all of your supplies together and ready to use. This helps make it easier to manage and you don't have to worry about going back and forth while working.

1. Fill the large bowl with ice and add salt. Stir to mix well.

2. Carefully place a plastic cup in the center of the ice and pour a small amount of juice into the cup. Set a timer for 15 minutes.

3. When the timer goes off, stir the juice and note any changes. Is it still a liquid? Set the timer for 20 minutes.

4. Check the juice and stir it with a spoon. What do you see now? Is there slush in the juice as it starts to freeze? Set the timer for 10 minutes.

5. Check the juice again and report your findings.

Other Options: Hypothesize what will happen to the juice in the bowl and how long it will take to turn into a slush. Other options are to try other liquids, such as milk, water, tomato juice, etc. and see if they freeze just as fast as the other liquids.

Science Lesson Plan Concept Demonstrated: Adding salt to ice (frozen water) makes the ice melt at a lower temperature. The ice gets cold in the bowl and absorbs the mixture heat from the juice. This makes the juice colder and eventually freezing. Stirring the juice helps to break up the ice, making it a slush instead of ice.

More Science Activities for Kids:
Magnet Science Activity For Kids Easy Water Science Experiments For Kids 7 Ways To Use Apples To Teach About Science How To Teach Kids Science Skills In The Garden Ice Cube Discovery Activity For Kids Bouncing Beans Activity For Kids Thanks to Kari of Craft Create Cook for sharing her project and pictures with us.

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Step 1/2 - Add drops of food coloring into the purified water (must be pure water, not mineral water) and put it into the refrigerator below 0 °C. It commonly requires 2-3 hours. It is can turn it into ice in the refrigerator if it freezes for too long, while it also cannot demonstrate this experiment if it freezes for too short. So, be patient. You need to have some try to reach that exact point.

Step 2/2 - Two ways you can have fun with this experiment.

1 . Carefully take out the bottle from the refrigerator and tap the bottom or side of the bottle and then you have instant ice.

2 . Pour the freezing water onto the ice. Then you can see that the ice will also turn into ice instantly when it touches the ice.

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It is commonly known that water freezes at 0 °C and the transformation from liquid to solid take some time. Yet, that is not what purified water act like. Instant Ice is an easy science project for kids to do at home in summer. In this experiment, the water instantly turns into ice.

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Learning how to make a paper boat is SO FUN and really easy! With just five minutes and a sheet of regular printer paper, you can fold a cute little origami boat that actually floats on water.

This is such a classic craft project that's quick and simple, and it's a really fun introduction to origami! Follow the step-by-step tutorial below, or watch the quick video to learn how to make a paper boat. You'll be an expert in no time!

How to Make a Paper Boat

Do paper boats float in water?

Yes! These boats will float in water. But since they're made out of paper, they can really only go in the water once. The boats should last in water for at least 10 minutes before they get waterlogged. Once they're soaked with water, it will be hard to keep them upright, and they might even sink.

If you want them to last longer in the water, add a layer of tape to the bottom of your boat to make it waterproof.

What kind of paper do you need to make a paper boat?

I find it easiest to use regular printer paper or construction paper, since most people have those at home already. Printer paper comes in all sorts of fun colours, or you can colour or draw on white paper to add colour to your boat.

You can also use origami paper if you have it. You just have to cut it to make sure the proportions are right, since most origami paper is square.

Want your boat to last longer in the water? Make a waterproof boat out of waxed paper or aluminum foil!

Can you put things in paper boats?

Sort of. If you're planning to put your boats in water, whatever you put into the boats has to be really light, otherwise the boats will tip over. You could cut out paper people to put in your boats... or possibly teeny tiny toys. But I can't promise that the boats will stay upright in the water with toys in them.

If you're playing with the boats on the floor (and not in the water), you can load them up with all sorts of fun, small toys. Try Lego figures, small Hatchimals, or even Polly Pockets!

Where can I play with these paper boats?

You can play with paper boats in the bath, in the sink, or even outside in a puddle. Or you can keep them dry and play with them on the floor so they last longer. A blue towel or blanket makes a great ocean!

How can I customize my origami boat?

Use brightly coloured paper, and decorate them with markers, pencil crayons, and stickers. Don't forget to give your boat a name when you're done!

We hope you'll have a great time learning how to make a paper boat, because these boats are SO FUN and they're really simple to make! All you need is one piece of regular sized printer paper and in 5 minutes you can fold an awesome boat that actually floats in water!

This is such a fun kids craft and a great introduction to origami for kids. Such a fun activity for summer or any time!

When my kids got home from school, they saw all my paper boats on the office floor (because that's where all my best crafting is done!), and they got so excited to make them! My 5 year old is a little too young to make the folds, so I just gave him one of my paper boats. But my 7 and 9 year olds folded theirs all by themselves and they looked awesome!

Then my 3 kids gathered all the sofa cushions and made a giant fort for their paper boats. Because why not make an ocean fort for your paper boats!? They loaded their boats with tiny little toys and I heard all sorts of playing with "LOOK THERE'S LAND OVER THERE!" the whole time I was making dinner.

Here's even more fun craft ideas:
This post was originally published on January 16, 2020.
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This origami peace dove is fun and easy to make. Use this origami dove to decorate greetings cards or hang them up as pretty decorations.

Photo Tutorial:

1. Start by folding the paper diagonally in half and then in half again until you have the paper looking like the first image on the left.
2. With the paper positioned as shown, fold the bottom left point diagonally up to the top right point.
3. Repeat on the back flap.
4. This is what you should have.

5. Rotate the paper so that it is as shown
6. Fold the front bottom point up to center of the top edge.
7. Open the front flap so you can see underneath.
8. Reverse fold the crease you made in step 6 inside.

9. Repeat on the other side.
10. Fold the left point down to form the dove's head.
11. Reverse fold the head.
12. You can adjust the head by re-possitioning it at this time.
13. This is roughly what you should have.

14. Fold a wing upwards. Repeat on the back.
15. Fold the bottom right point to the left, forming the dove's tail.
16. Open the bottom section and squash fold the tail.
17. Finally, wrap the tail around to the left.
18. The origami peace dove is complete!

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These easy rainbow popsicles are so fun and they're really simple to make! And the best part is that they barely drip when you're eating them! My 7 year old says they taste exactly like birthday cake.

I've been dreaming of making rainbow coloured popsicles for years now. But I've always been troubled by the variety of colourful juices I'd have to buy. Or the quantity of multicoloured smoothies I'd have to make. And then I'm way too impatient to wait for every single layer to freeze so they don't mix together!

But not with this recipe my friends. The solution is instant pudding. It's so simple! You make the pudding (with a small tweak), and by the time you're done mixing the colours it's set enough that you can just pile the layers on top of each other. There's no need to wait for the layers to freeze before adding the next one!

I really wanted to make this recipe in my popsicle mold, but there wasn't enough space to get the spoon to the bottom of the mold. So using Dixie cups is absolutely perfect! There's plenty of room to get a spoon to the bottom of the Dixie cup without messing up your beautiful rainbow layers! I was inspired by the brilliant recipe over at Sandy Toes & Popsicles.

I would absolutely love to feed my children all natural popsicles with 5 layers of fresh fruit smoothies. But let's be real. I barely have time to brush my kids' hair let alone make 5 smoothies and freeze each layer for an hour or two. I'm pretty excited that I could make these easy rainbow popsicles as a special (and quick!) treat for the kids. And they LOVED them!!

How to Make Easy Rainbow Popsicles

The full printable recipe is at the end of this post, but here's what you'll need:

I used vanilla instant pudding as the base for these popsicles. And I found the Dixie cups at the dollar store.

You'll want to use a little more milk than the recipe on the box recommends. My package of 4 serving instant pudding said to add 2 cups of milk, but I added just under 2-2/3 cups of milk. The pudding needs to be runnier than normal pudding, but thick enough that the layers don't mix together when you layer them. Whisk the milk with the pudding mix until it's smooth.

How to Make the Layers

Divide the pudding evenly into 5 bowls. I just guessed rather than measuring it out precisely, and it ended up being pretty close. It helps if you have 5 identical small bowls.

Then you can add the food colouring to each bowl and stir it together. I used 6 drops of food colouring for each colour:

Red Layer - 6 drops red food colouring

Orange Layer - 1 drop red and 5 drops yellow food colouring

Yellow Layer - 6 drops yellow food colouring

Green Layer - 6 drops green food colouring

Blue Layer - 6 drops blue food colouring

Purple Layer - If you have purple food colouring you can definitely make a 6th layer. But I find when you mix purple using red and blue it comes out crazy dark, so I skipped purple.

Next you can add the layers to your Dixie cups. I used 3 ounce Dixie cups and the teaspoons from my regular cutlery set. Whatever spoon you use, just make sure it's smaller than the Dixie cup so you can get it into the cup without touching the sides.

After you add each layer, you can tap the cup down gently on the counter to even out the pudding before you add the next layer. There's no need to freeze the layers, the pudding should be thick enough on it's own.

When you're done your layers, add a small square of tin foil to cover the top of the Dixie cup.

Use a knife to cut a small hole in the middle of the foil for the popsicle stick. Then you can push the popsicle stick through the hole and into the pudding. We pushed our popsicle sticks all the way to the bottom.

This next photo makes me so happy! I put my Dixie cups into my dollar store loaf pan and the 8 of them fit PERFECTLY. It's such a glorious feeling when that happens!! lol

Then I put the loaf pan full of popsicles into the freezer. We got busy and left them in the freezer for 24 hours, so I'm not sure exactly how long it takes for them to freeze? They'd probably be ready in 4 to 6 hours?

I think my kids' favourite part about these was peeling back the Dixie cups after they were frozen. You just make a small tear or cut at the top, then you can peel away the cup from the popsicle.

I'm sure you could also run them under warm water and just pull them out, but the kids really LOVED peeling away the cups.

You know the emoji that has hearts in it's eyes? That's how I feel when I look at these rainbow popsicles. They turned out SO WELL!

The layers worked out perfectly and there weren't very many air bubbles. They were easy to make and they look so awesome!

These easy rainbow popsicles are so fun and they're really simple to make! There's no need to wait for each layer to freeze which makes them quick and easy. And even better, since they're made with pudding, these popsicles barely drip when they melt! This is such a great summer recipe and a super fun treat for the kids.

If you're looking for more fun popsicle ideas check out our recipe for making fresh fruit popsicles. These are so healthy, so pretty and really easy to make!

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Want to fill your kids' Easter baskets up with something other than sugar-loaded chocolate and candy? Then, you must check out these fun and healthy spring recipes!

Creative Spring And Easter Recipes

Spring is tricky when you're trying to eat better and raise healthy eaters. It's strange, really. We start the year off with grand resolutions to stick to a healthier diet, cut out fat and sugar, and generally maintain a better overall lifestyle. Then February happens, and out come the chocolate hearts, chocolate dipped strawberries, and ginormous boxes of chocolate-covered everything. Name any food and February will find a way to smother it in chocolate.

If you think you'll get a reprieve once March rolls around, think again! Chocolate is joined by its gooey friend, the marshmallow, and the whole cycle starts over. This time, though, your kids become the target audience. Commercials featuring clucking bunnies and dancing marshmallows bombard our kids and send them begging for the one thing we're really trying to cut out of their diets: junk food.

Here's the good news: if you think outside the box of chocolates and get creative with healthy foods, your kids won't miss all the junk! Check out these 21 fun spring & Easter recipes, then read on for a few tips on turning the ordinary into extraordinary for your family.

21 Fun Spring & Easter Treats & Recipes

Tips on Turning the Ordinary into Extraordinary Fun Spring Food

Get kids involved

The #1 way to get kids to actually eat that fun healthy recipe you want them to try: get them involved in making it. Kids as young as 2 can help hand you the ingredients, while older kids can mix & stir, arrange creative patterns and more.

Invest in cute cookie cutters

Cookie cutters turn boring sandwiches and other healthier offerings into irresistible goodies in no time at all. Grab some bunny and chick shapes for spring! You can also get an oval-shaped cutter and use healthy condiments and veggies to "decorate" an Easter egg sandwich!

Stick it on a stick

For foods that don't work with cookie cutters, break out the kabob sticks. Alternate tomatoes, cucumbers, and carrots for a colorful "salad on a stick," or make a "sandwich on a stick" out of cold leftover chicken cut into cubes, chunks of cheese, tomatoes, and folded-up slices of whole wheat pita bread. For younger kids, grab blunt-ended kabob skewers or cut off the sharp tip before serving.

Make it a game

Print out some fun spring shapes, like tulips, bunnies, or chicks. Coloring pages also work. Stick the page under a clear (and clean, obviously) placemat or a clear party plate, then cover the design with healthy foods like fruits, veggies, or anything else you really want your kids to eat. Tell them there's a secret surprise hiding underneath, and they have to eat all of their lunch to uncover it.

Try these tips along with the fun spring recipes above and your kids will never even miss the chocolate-covered marshmallow madness this Easter! You can even use some of these fun food ideas as basket fillers!

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It turns out Friday, June 3rd is National Donut Day! We love donuts around here, just not the sugary crash they come with once our kids indulge in them. If you're looking to celebrate this sweet day with your kids without the extra sugar, here's a healthier "donut" version made with apples!
Apple Fruit Donuts - Ingredients:
- Apples
- Cream Cheese
- Food Coloring (optional)
- Sprinkles

*you'll also need an apple corer or something to make the hole - or you can use a pastry tip like we did.

Step 1. Slice your apples about 3/4″ thick. Use a knife, corer, or pastry tip to make a hole in the center.

Step 2. Color you cream cheese if you'd like. We just added a drop of neon food coloring to get these bright colors. Add sprinkles.

That's pretty much it! Enjoy this healthier "donut" for kids that makes a yummy and adorable snack.

If you want to sweeten the donuts a bit to cut the tang from the cream cheese, add a drizzle of honey on top.

What are your favorite healthy kid snacks?

Happy National Donut Day! Check out these adorable donut projects for kids.

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It turns out Friday, June 3rd is National Donut Day! We love donuts around here, just not the sugary crash they come with once our kids indulge in them. If you're looking to celebrate this sweet day with your kids without the extra sugar, here's a healthier "donut" version made with apples!

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I had a few egg cartons left over from all of our egg dyeing festivities from Easter, so we decided to make some fun Spring themed crafts with them. I’m going to show you how

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Fun Kids Craft

Kids will love watching the colours spread through the coffee filters and make patterned 'wings' of their butterfly.

Using just coffee filters, marker pens and by dripping on water, you can get this tie-dyed effect. Then fold each filter up into little butterfly wings and secure them together with a pipe cleaner.

Quick, easy and beautiful coffee filter butterflies! A great spring butterfly craft to enjoy with the kids.

Summary

Time: 20 minutes
Age: Little kids to Tweens
Difficulty: Intermediate

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You will need:

Coffee filter papers - you need 4 circles for each butterfly

Washable felt pens

Pipe cleaners

Pipette/spray bottle/large paintbrush

Water

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Step 1: Decorate the circles

You need four coffee filter circles for your butterfly.

Split your circles into two pairs of two coffee filters.

Pop each circle neatly one on top of the other so that you have two piles of two.

Decorate the top coffee filter with washable felt pens. Use nice bright colours and have fun making any patterns you like.

Don't worry if the designs look rough or messy at this stage. They will soon be transformed completely.

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Step 2: Drip water all over them!

Now for the really magical bit.

Place the coffee filter circles on a baking tray. Take care not to move the undecorated bottom layers. And drop water all over the surface.

We used a little water bottle pipette but you could use a spray bottle or even a fat paintbrush dipped in water.

Cover the entire circle with water drops.

Then watch the colours start to blend into each other. Once the whole circle is wet, the blank coffee filter underneath will soak up the colours.

You should get two matching pairs of coffee filters.

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Step 3: Let them dry

Separate the top and bottom layers of each pair.

Pop the 4 coffee filters onto a piece of kitchen roll to dry.

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Step 4: fold each circle

When they are completely dry, concertina each circle.

Fold it one-way and then another into thin folds as shown.

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Step 5: Bring the filters together

Now you have four folded 'wings'.

Bring the top two wings together by overlapping the folds slightly.

Do the same for the bottom pair of wings.

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Step 6: Tie the wings together

Fold a pipe cleaner in half.

Wrap it around the centre of the two sets of coffee filters.

Then twist the pipe cleaner so all that all four pieces are held securely in place.

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Step 7: Fan out its wings

To finish, fan out the four wing parts.

Curl the ends of the pipe cleaner around to make the butterfly's 'antennae'.

Tip for doing this craft with toddlers:

Tying the coffee filters together can be bit too fiddly for young children.

We have some tips for adjusting the above craft so that toddlers can enjoy it too:

1. Use two coffee filters instead of four smaller ones.

2. Pop the 2 circles together and decorate the top coffee filter, as above. Soak with water, separate and leave your 2 circles to dry.

3. Then concertina them and twist a pipe cleaner round the middle.

You will end up with a 2 butterfly wings instead of 4 and it's a much less fiddly way to join them together.

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Kids will love watching the colours spread through the coffee filters and make patterned 'wings' of their butterfly. Using just coffee filters, marker pens and by dripping on water, you can get this tie-dyed effect. Then fold each filter up into little butterfly wings and secure them together with a pipe cleaner.

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Here is why you need to make string Easter eggs: they are messy, they take a long time to make, and the balloons make the coolest glass-breaking/creaky noises when you finally get to pop them. It's SO satisfying.

Oh yeah, they're also kinda cute, aren't they?

Supplies:

Directions:

Blow up some balloons with the pumper-upper, because your face will explode if you try to blow these suckers up with your breath.

Set up the ingenious drying rack I devised for the paper mache pencils project. Or you can probably just set the eggs on wax paper after you wrap them, but it's not nearly as fun as clothes pinning them to a cooling rack.

Cut arm-lengths of embroidery floss- I used about 6-8 for each balloon. Experiment with putting different colors together, or use one color per balloon.

Mix up a bowl of glue with enough water (add a small amount at a time), to make it just runny enough to soak into the embroidery thread.

*Note* I've had several comments from people that their string never set up with their mixture of glue and water. I'm not sure how their mixtures differed from mine, but this is not an exact science: you may have to experiment until you find a good ratio. My rule of thumb is water down the glue just enough so that it coats the floss easily.

Take a piece of your thread and dunk it into the bowl of water glue, pressing it in all the way so that the whole length of the thread gets nice and saturated. Grab an end of the thread and wring it out between your fingers as you pull it from the bowl.

Now wrap it around the balloon, and follow suit with each piece of thread until it looks good to you.

I clipped the balloons to the drying rack with a clothes pin - just make sure they aren't touching each other, and won't be knocked over.

After a few hours, your string will have dried and you can pop the balloons. We had a very fun family few moments poking tacks into the balloons and watching/listening to them as they slowly deflated. Pull the balloons out with your fingers or tweezers.

Note: To be safe, you might want to let these dry overnight or even up to 24 hours. You don't want to go through all that work only to find they haven't set up properly.

Now is the time to decide if you want to display your string eggs in a lovely bowl, or tie embroidery thread to them and hang them from your Ikea light. I was so tempted to tie them to a ceiling fan. 🙂

If you like these, you might love my alternatives to traditional Easter eggs.

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Here is why you need to make string Easter eggs: they are messy, they take a long time to make, and the balloons make the coolest glass-breaking/creaky noises when you finally get to pop them. It's SO satisfying. Oh yeah, they're also kinda cute, aren't they?

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Make these fab Easter chicks using a fork and some paints! Fork painting is one of the quickest and funnest way to get painting with toddlers. This craft will make you a beautiful painting of a little chick which kids will love to look at it and enjoy it in the spring time.

Summary:

Time: 10 mins
Age: Toddlers to Big kids
Difficulty: Easy peasy

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You will need:

A plastic fork

Yellow paint

Googly eyes

A small piece of orange felt or card

Scissors

Glue

Black pen

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Step 1: Start printing

Dip the back of your fork into yellow paint and print onto a piece of paper or card.

Keep adding more and more prints, moving round in a circle to start making your little chick.

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Step 2: Print your fluffy chick

Keep printing with your fork until you have covered a complete circle.

Overlap the fork prints to make your chick nice and fluffy.

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Step 3: Add the eyes and beak

Cut a small triangle of orange felt or card and glue in in place for the beak.

Then stick on some fun googly eyes.

If you don't have googly eyes you can draw eyes on using your sharpie pen.

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Step 4: Give your chick some legs

Use your black pen to add on some little legs for your chick and to complete your lovely Easter painting.

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Make these fab Easter chicks using a fork and some paints. Fork painting is one of the quickest and funnest way to get painting with toddlers. This craft will make you a beautiful painting of a little chick which kids will love to look at it and enjoy it in the spring time.

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Make these adorable little quilled snails with your kiddos!

List of Supplies:
Instructions:

Step -1: Select colored craft paper for the snail and trace the template patterns on the selected papers. Use scissors to cut out the traced patterns.

Step -2: Select different colored paper quilling trips. Use the slotted quilling tool to coil each strip and then for loose coil shapes with them. Make as many loose coil shapes as required.

Step - 3: Grab the loose coils and the round cut out.

Step - 4: Start to glue the loose coil shapes on the round cut out one by one. Start gluing the loose coils from the outer edge (the border of the round cut out) of the round cut out.

Step - 5: Keep gluing the loose coil shapes on the round cut out until it is filled. You can add tiny coils to fill the gaps between the loose coils if you want.

Step - 6: Now take the body cut out of the snail and stick the 2 eye cut outs on their places on the body cut out. Make sure to draw the eye balls on the 2 eye cut outs; use black sharpie to draw them. This is the shell of the snail.

Step - 7: Now stick the quilled round piece on the body of the snail. Allow the glue to dry and meanwhile make another one!

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Quilled Paper Snail Craft - Crafty Morning

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Make these adorable little quilled snails with your kiddos! List of Supplies: Colored craft paper Paper quilling strips Scissors Pencil Craft glue Slotted quilling tool Marker pen Printable Snail PDF Instructions: Step -1: Select colored craft paper for the snail and trace the template patterns on the selected papers.

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This paper chain snake craft is based on two exotic-looking species of python which live in Australia's tropical Daintree Rainforest.

The yellow patterned snake (named Pretzel by my daughter) is a Jungle Carpet python, and the green spotted snake is a beautiful Green Tree python.

If you've never seen one of these snakes in real life they are stunning to look at with the brightest green colouring - perfect for blending into the lush green foliage of the Daintree for camouflage.
This kids craft idea was first published in 2019 and has been updated and reshared for today's audience.
When we travelled to the Daintree Rainforest last year I was secretly hoping to come across one of these snakes in the wild. If I had, I could have taken a photo to show you.

Sadly it wasn't to be, snakes are very good at hiding but I'm sure they were out there!

I did manage to find a photograph of each of them from a stock library so you can see the real deal.
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Growing up in a country with 140 species of snakes, 100 of them being venomous, has given me a healthy respect for these creatures.

I'm not afraid of them because every time I've seen a snake in the wild it's been either slithering away to hide or sun baking happily on a rock and minding it's own business.

They really don't deserve their bad reputation at all. A snake will only harm you if you accidentally tread on it or provoke it in some way.

The majority (if not all) of the snakes I've seen being passed around to hold and touch at wildlife parks and petting zoos have been pythons of some kind because they are non-venomous. You could even say they're friendly.

Here are some fun python facts to talk to the kids about whilst you make the craft.

Cool Python facts for kids

There are 41 known species of python snakes which can be found in Australia, Asia and Africa

All pythons are non-venomous snakes which kill their prey by constricting (squeezing) them, like a boa constrictor

Unlike boa constrictors, which give birth to live young, pythons lay eggs.

Thanks to their good looks and lack of venom, both the Jungle Carpet python and the Green Tree python are popular as pet snakes

Their favourite foods are: small mammals, birds, frogs and lizards - yum!

The Green Tree python spends most of her life in the trees, only coming to the forest floor to find a new tree. The Jungle Carpet python lives on both the forest floor and also in the trees.

The longest species of python in the world is the Reticulated python, which lives in a number of Asian countries and has been reported to grow up to 10m or 33ft long! (but this report is unverified)

Aren't they amazing creatures? Let's make one so you can have your own "pet" paper python.

How to make a Paper Chain Snake
You will need:

Construction paper the colour of the snake you choose to make

A glue stick

Scissors

Felt tip markers

The printable template, available in both our printable store and our TPT store

How to
Print out the snake you wish to make. For each medium-length snake you'll need:

1x head and tail page

2 x top and tummy link pages

2 x side link pages

1 set of eyes and tongue

To make a longer snake print out more of the body links.

Cut: Cut out the top and tummy links out and place in one pile. Place the side links in a separate pile. Cut the head and tail out and save for last.

Make the body: Create a paper chain alternating one "top and tummy" link with each "side link". When gluing the top and tummy, place the glued end on the underside, when gluing the side links place it at the back. This keeps the pattern consistent.

Colour the eye and tongue, then glue onto the head.

Fold the tab on the head, and glue into place at one end of the chain. Do the same with the tail.

Isn't he sssssss-splendid?

To make the Green Tree snake, the only difference is that you need to use a Q-tip to paint the dots on it's back before assembling (they are usually white or light yellow).

Of course, you may wish to come up with your own unique snake design using the blank template included with the set.

Design your own paper chain snake

This is a fun STEM activity idea. Remember to decorate the side links differently to the top and tummy links using pencils, felt tip markers or paints.

Alternatively you can use the colours of the construction paper as the "pattern". A fabulous variation would be to create a pattern with fingerprints.

Do you love snakes, or are you afraid of them?

More Australian animal craft ideas

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Paper chain snake craft for kids based on 2 real species of python found in Australia's Daintree Rainforest. Printable template available.

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There's something fun about turning a piece of cardboard headed for the recycling bin into something else! Do you remember doing shoe box crafts as a kid? I remember making a shoe box manger and it was one of my favorite activities in school. This is a similar idea (you could do a shoe box aquarium too!) but this is using a cereal box! This cereal box aquarium is so much fun to make and such a fun craft to keep afterwards too.

RELATED: Tissue Box Monsters

This cereal box aquarium craft is a great one for encouraging creativity! Kids can choose how they want to decorate their aquarium, what colored fish and what colors even! There are so many options and ways to build an aquarium. We would love to see how you make yours!

Our book - Fun and Easy Crafting with Recycled Materials is bursting with cardboard crafts like this one. There is a whole chapter of cardboard crafts. But not only that, there are other recycled crafts for kids too - egg cartons, paper rolls, newspaper, popsicle sticks, jars and more!

Supplies to Make This Cereal Box Aquarium Craft

Watch the Video Tutorial

Directions to Make a Cereal Box Aquarium

1. First you need to trace a cut-out on your box. We used a sharpie to make our lines and then used an x-acto knife (adults only) to cut out the center of the box.

2. Now paint the inside of your box a turquoise blue color.

3. Paint the outside of your box silver (to make it look like an aquarium).

4. Now you can decorate your aquarium however you'd like!

Kinetic sand as a background on the bottom. We didn't try regular sand but regular sand would likely work too. The kinetic sand sticks together and holds in place so it's easy to work with. You could also use cereal like cheerios or a puff style cereal to make it look like sand.

Green Pipe Cleaners - cut some strips of green pipe cleaners and glue to the bottom of your box to make it look like seaweed.

Sea Shells - we used the sea shells to hide the bottom of the pipe cleaners. Add some sea shells wherever you think they will fit! These will need to be hot glued down.
Here are the elements we added:
Stones for the bottom of the aquarium. Stones will add some weight for the aquarium to stand up on its own. Stones can be placed at the bottom or hot glued down.

4. Print off this fish template to make these adorable fish for your cereal box aquarium.

5. Now cut out your fish template and use it to trace your fish shapes onto your colored paper. We used orange, yellow and red cardstock.

6. Glue on googly eyes to your fish.

7. Take a small piece of string and tape it to the back of your fish.

8. Now attach the strings to the top of your cereal box.

Now you have a finished cereal box aquarium. We hope you had as much fun making these as we did!
Now it's time to add your fish!
Looking for another fun fish craft? Make this adorable Fish Handprint Card. This would be perfect for Father's Day or the fishing lover Dad's birthday!

These butterfly handprint cards are also an adorable craft to make for any occasion!
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There's something fun about turning a piece of cardboard headed for the recycling bin into something else! Do you remember doing shoe box crafts as a kid? I remember making a shoe box manger and it was one of my favorite activities in school.

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Here's an easy frog paper craft for kids - make a fun, bouncy frog on a lily pad using our printable template.

This idea is perfect for spring crafting or for a unit on minibeasts or life cycles.
Get the frog template here
I've always had a fascination with frogs and how they change from tiny, vegetarian tadpoles into hopping, meat-eating amphibians. We've set up a tadpole observation tank in the house a number of times, supposedly for the kids but I never get tired of seeing this happen myself.

This frog paper craft is made from a template I created for the girls when they were pre-schoolers, but it's suitable for kids of all ages. If you're crafting with preschoolers you will probably need to cut the shapes out for them to glue and decorate (the frog shape is quite intricate).

Decorate your frog on a lily pad any way you like. I've used coloured construction paper and spot stickers to decorate mine.

When my girls made them they opted for glitter (of course!), markers, buttons, plastic gems and googly eyes.

You will need:

How to

Print the template directly onto your coloured construction paper. It's a good idea to print out two so that the frog is a different colour to the lily pad. Then you can make two frogs on lily pads!

Cut out the shapes.

Decorate the lily pad and frog. I've cut leaf details from a different coloured piece of construction paper.

Make a bouncy paper spring by sticking two paper strips at right angles to each other and folding over each other until it becomes a spring.

Stick the paper spring to the lily pad and stick the frog to the spring.

Optionally, cut a thin strip of red paper and curl it around a pencil to make a tongue.

Voila! You now have a bouncy paper frog.

Here are some kid-made ones...

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Easy frog paper craft - make a fun, bouncy frog on a lily pad craft using our printable template. This is a fun Spring craft idea for kids

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