Recycled Crafts
Make fun recycled crafts from those empty juice boxes. Recycled crafts teach children to reuse ordinary household items and reduce waste. Juice box buddies can be made to represent storybook characters, animals, warriors, princesses or fairies. Add scrap paper, wiggle eyes, glitter and other craft supplies to create these fun juice box buddies. Once these recycled crafts are made, children can use their creations to act out their favorite story or just use their imagination to play with their new friends.
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Recycled Crafts
What you need:
- Rinsed out juice box
- Construction paper or scrap paper
- Tape or glue
- Wiggle Eyes
- Yarn, glitter, pipe cleaners (or juice box straws), glitter, etc.
How to make Juice Box Buddies:
- Wrap empty juice box with construction paper
- Cut strips into black piece of construction paper to make hair (yarn may also be used for the same purpose).
- Glue hair to top of juice box.
- Glue wiggle eyes and mouth to front of box. Add pipe cleaner arms and legs if you like.
Baby Shower Idea
Another baby shower idea is Asian-inspired with the theme of good fortune. This baby shower idea simply uses paper lanterns, blossoms, fortune cookies and more! For baby shower decorations use pink and white balloons and colorful paper lanterns of different shapes and sizes.
Baby Shower Idea
More baby shower decorations include bowls of fortune cookies, miniature zen gardens or baby “sushi.” Food for baby shower is made simple when you order Chinese take-out or dim sum for buffet style food. To make the baby sushi, roll baby socks, washcloths, onesies “sushi style,” and display them on a small black tray.
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Puppy Birthday Party
Toddlers love a puppy birthday party. You can base a puppy birthday party around your child’s favorite dog or the characters Clifford, Scooby Doo or 101 Dalmations. Hold your puppy party in the early afternoon when your toddler will be at their best. Many inexpensive decorations for your puppy party can be found at your local discount and dollar stores. Decorate a “dog house” from boxes or poster board and take pictures of each guest as a souvenir.
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Puppy Birthday Party
Decorations
- Cut out paw prints from black or brightly colored paper to mount on walls
- Decorate with red balloons and streamers or black and white if the puppy party is Dalmation-themed
- Red table cloth decorated with dog bone or paw print shaped stamps
- Dog bowls full of snacks
Activities
- Search for lost puppies – hide toy puppies around the house or yard for the children to find
- Paw print cupcake station – use thin mints for paw pad and junior mints for the toes
- Barking the happy birthday song
- Make a felt dog collar
- Solve a Scooby Doo mystery
Puppet Making
Introduce your child to puppet making as a fun way to encourage their imagination. Younger children can begin their introduction to puppet making with simple string puppets such as cup marionettes. Before television string puppets were often used as interactive teaching methods to convey concepts to children.
This craft project is an inexpensive idea that can be used later as a rainy day or play date activity. Visit www.treasureboxkids.com for children’s clothing and ideas. Be sure to look through our archived blog posts for more activities, fun kids crafts, tips and birthday party ideas. Here are the directions to make this simple cup string puppet:
Puppet Making
What you need for this craft project:
· 3 cups
· 4 lengths of string or yarn
· Control stick – old ruler, twig from outdoors, curtain rod, etc.
Decorating materials: wiggle eyes, markers, glitter glue, sequins, stickers, pom poms, etc
How to make the string puppet:
1. Head cup: poke holes ¼” from the top edge of a cup. Run one string through the inside of the cup as shown.
2. Feet cups: attach one string to the inside of each of the 2 feet cups as shown.
3. Tie the strings from the head cup to the control stick. Poke 2 holes in the bottom of the head cup to attach the feet cups to.
at you need for this craft project:
· 3 cups
· 4 lengths of string or yarn
· Control stick – old ruler, twig from outdoors, curtain rod, etc.
· 
Decorating materials: wiggle eyes, markers, glitter glue, sequins, stickers, pom poms, etc.
How to make the string puppet:
1. Head cup: poke holes ¼” from the top edge of a cup. Run one string through the inside of the cup as shown.
2. Feet cups: attach one string to the inside of each of the 2 feet cups as shown.
3. Tie the strings from the head cup to the control stick. Poke 2 holes in the bottom of the head cup to attach the feet cups to.
Kids Room Decor
Personalize your kids room décor with this fun twist on beaded curtains. Kids room décor becomes more important as they grow older and this is an inexpensive craft to brighten up their personal space. This beaded curtain idea has been modified to use pompoms instead of beads. Use clear fishing line, pompoms, a darning needle, a tension rod, scissors and clear tape to make this beaded curtain.
Kids Room Decor
Instructions:
- For each strand of pompoms, double-knot the end of a 5½-foot length of clear fishing line.
- Use a darning needle to thread one to three pompoms at a time. Leave 2 to 3 inches of line between each cluster and make a single knot below each cluster to hold the pompoms in place. Leave the last 6 inches of clear fishing line empty.
- Tie each strand to a tension rod, trim any excess line, and use clear tape to secure the strands.
- Expand the tension rod to fit the doorway of your child’s room.
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